Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:22:16 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: many items in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt have expired, please update |
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On Thu 2008-03-20 21:22:29, rae l wrote: > I noticed that many feature removal schedule marked in this file have > expired, so please update information: > 1. if the feature has been removed, please remove it from this file; > 2. if it does not, please update the schedule date;
> What: dev->power.power_state > When: July 2007 > Why: Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing > driver-internal runtime power management with: mechanisms to support > system-wide sleep state transitions; event codes that distinguish > different phases of swsusp "sleep" transitions; and userspace policy > inputs. This framework was never widely used, and most attempts to > use it were broken. Drivers should instead be exposing domain-specific > interfaces either to kernel or to userspace. > Who: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Feel free to help killing remaining power_state users, then it can disappear.
I won't update the date: it is in past to remind people that it should have been killed already.
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