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    SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/3] PM / Runtime: Update documentation of interactions with system sleep
    On Sun, 26 Jun 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

    > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
    >

    A few tiny nit-picks..

    > The documents describing the interactions between runtime PM and
    > system sleep generally refer to the model in which the system sleep
    > state is entered through a global firmware or hardware operation.
    > As a result, some recommendations given in there are not entirely
    > suitable for systems in which this is not the case. Update the
    > documentation take the existence of those systems into accout.
    >

    I believe this should read "... documentation to take the existence of
    those systems ..."


    <...>
    >
    > +On some systems, however, system sleep is not entered through a global firmware
    > +or hardware operation. Instead, all hardware components are put into low-power
    > +states directly by the kernel in a coordinated way. Then, the system sleep
    > +state effectively follows from the states the hardware components end up in
    > +and the system is woken up from that state by a hardware interrupt or a similar
    > +mechanism entirely under the kernel's control. As a result, the kernel never
    > +gives control away and the states of all devices during resume are precisely
    > +known to it. If that is the case and none of the situations listed above takes
    > +place (in particular, if the system is not waking up from hibernation), it may
    > +be more efficient to leave the devices that had been suspended before the system
    > +suspend began in the suspended state.
    > +

    You are refering to device*s*, so I believe this last bit should be "...
    in the suspended states".

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