From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757594AbZGCCSU (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:18:20 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757565AbZGCCSC (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:18:02 -0400 Received: from hera.kernel.org ([140.211.167.34]:41779 "EHLO hera.kernel.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756238AbZGCCSB (ORCPT ); Thu, 2 Jul 2009 22:18:01 -0400 Subject: Reminder for feature dev->power.power_state removal date July 2007 From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput To: Pavel Machek , linux-acpi , LKML Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 03 Jul 2009 07:36:48 +0530 Message-Id: <1246586808.2530.8.camel@jaswinder.satnam> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.26.1 (2.26.1-2.fc11) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hello Pavel, 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 If you are facing any issue regarding feature removal kindly update the "Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt" like what you are waiting for. Thanks, -- JSR http://userweb.kernel.org/~jaswinder/