From: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
To: Patrick Mochel <mochel@digitalimplant.org>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>,
torvalds@osdl.org, akpm@osdl.org, linux-pm@osdl.org,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 3/5] [pm] Respect the actual device power states in sysfs interface
Date: Sun, 19 Feb 2006 16:46:35 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060220004635.GA22576@kroah.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.50.0602191557520.8676-100000@monsoon.he.net>
On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 03:59:25PM -0800, Patrick Mochel wrote:
>
> On Sat, 18 Feb 2006, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > Hi!
> >
> > > Fix the per-device state file to respect the actual state that
> > > is reported by the device, or written to the file.
> >
> > Can we let "state" file die? You actually suggested that at one point.
> >
> > I do not think passing states in u32 is good idea. New interface that passes
> > state as string would probably be better.
>
> Yup, in the future that will be better. For now, let's work with what we
> got and fix 2.6.16 to be compatible with previous versions..
It's _way_ too late in the 2.6.16 cycle for this series of patches, if
that is what you are proposing.
thanks,
greg k-h
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-20 0:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 20+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-02-18 2:03 [PATCH 3/5] [pm] Respect the actual device power states in sysfs interface Patrick Mochel
2006-02-18 15:55 ` [linux-pm] " Pavel Machek
2006-02-19 23:59 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-20 0:09 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-20 0:17 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-20 0:20 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-20 0:36 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-20 0:41 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-20 17:55 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-20 17:58 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-20 18:08 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-20 18:10 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-20 0:46 ` Greg KH [this message]
2006-02-20 17:58 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-20 22:04 ` Greg KH
2006-02-21 1:09 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-21 10:57 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-21 11:12 ` Patrick Mochel
2006-02-21 11:25 ` Pavel Machek
2006-02-27 19:06 ` Patrick Mochel
Reply instructions:
You may reply publicly to this message via plain-text email
using any one of the following methods:
* Save the following mbox file, import it into your mail client,
and reply-to-all from there: mbox
Avoid top-posting and favor interleaved quoting:
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style#Interleaved_style
* Reply using the --to, --cc, and --in-reply-to
switches of git-send-email(1):
git send-email \
--in-reply-to=20060220004635.GA22576@kroah.com \
--to=greg@kroah.com \
--cc=akpm@osdl.org \
--cc=linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org \
--cc=linux-pm@osdl.org \
--cc=mochel@digitalimplant.org \
--cc=pavel@suse.cz \
--cc=torvalds@osdl.org \
/path/to/YOUR_REPLY
https://kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/git-send-email.html
* If your mail client supports setting the In-Reply-To header
via mailto: links, try the mailto: link
Be sure your reply has a Subject: header at the top and a blank line
before the message body.
This is a public inbox, see mirroring instructions
for how to clone and mirror all data and code used for this inbox