On Friday 22 December 2006 1:09 pm, Pavel Machek wrote: > Actually, if we noticed power/state during PM framework review, it > would have been killed. It is just way too ugly. > > > > > In contrast, the /sys/devices/.../power/state API has never had many > > > > users beyond developers trying to test their drivers ... > > > > > > It's used on every Ubuntu and Suse system, > > > > Odd how the relevant Suse developers didn't mention any issues with > > those files going away, any of the times problems with them were > > discussed on the PM list. Also, I have a Suse system that doesn't > > use those files for anything ... maybe only newer release use it. > > Not on *every* suse system. power/state is known to oops kernels, so > it is only enabled when user explicitely asks for 'dangerous aggresive > experimental power saving' or something like that.
So exactly what tool on Ubuntu uses this? Without any "dangerous! aggressive! experimental!" read-lights-siren-alarms-ringing alert level? Seems to me anyone really desperate to put PCI devices into a low power mode, without driver support at the "ifdown" level, would be able just "rmmod driver; setpci". Without risking software bugs. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
