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SubjectRe: many items in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt have expired, please update
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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