Re: [linux-pm] Re : [HELP] Power management for embedded system

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > It would be nice to move that to some arch independent generic
> > implementation of these things and to leave the APM emulation behind.
> > The battery information should be a sysfs class (see the backlight/led
> > classes as examples of sysfs classes). The suspend/resume event handling
> > would be something new as far as I know and ideally should support
> > suspending/resuming individual sections of device hardware as well as
> > the whole system.
> 
> Triggering suspend/resume is already generic in the form of the 
> /sys/power/state interface. There's been discussion of producing a 
> generic battery class lately. There's some trend towards tying suspend 
> requests into the input layer, but how appropriate that is may
> > depend on 

suspend requests into input layer.. No, I do not think Dmitry will
allow us to do that.

Yes, we definitely want some kind of "generic battery" layer.

									Pavel
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