Hi!

> > > Introduce the pm_power_off_prepare() callback that can be registered by 
> > > the
> > > interested platforms in analogy with pm_idle() and pm_power_off(), used 
> > > for
> > > preparing the system to power off (needed by ACPI).
> > > 
> > > This allows us to drop acpi_sysclass and device_acpi that are only 
> > > defined in
> > > order to register the ACPI power off preparation callback, which is 
> > > needed by
> > > pm_power_off() registered in a much different way.
> > 
> > Well, the acpi way works with more than one piece of code "listening"
> > for powerdowns... and does not seem that ugly to me.
> > 
> > Okay, so accessing system_state is not _that_ nice... aha, and perhaps
> > I understand why 1/2 of this series is right... it called prepare for
> > S4 even when we had shutdown in /sys/power/disk, right?
> > 
> > Hmm. Okay, I think I can ACK both of these patches, but ACPI people
> > should have chance to comment, and it probably needs to stay in -mm
> > for a while.
> 
> Well, linux-acpi in on the CC list and I see no comments from them. :-)

Hmm, that's bad. We can try adding "APM rocks" into subject line to
get their attetion or something...
                                                                Pavel
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