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authorLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-02-26 17:22:53 -0800
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>2010-02-26 17:22:53 -0800
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parenta9c9b4429df437982d2fbfab1f4b46b01329e9ed (diff)
Merge branch 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6
* 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rafael/suspend-2.6: PM / Hibernate: Fix preallocating of memory PM / Hibernate: Remove swsusp.c finally PM / Hibernate: Remove trailing space in message PM: Allow SCSI devices to suspend/resume asynchronously PM: Allow USB devices to suspend/resume asynchronously USB: implement non-tree resume ordering constraints for PCI host controllers PM: Allow PCI devices to suspend/resume asynchronously PM / Hibernate: Swap, remove useless check from swsusp_read() PM / Hibernate: Really deprecate deprecated user ioctls PM: Allow device drivers to use dpm_wait() PM: Start asynchronous resume threads upfront PM: Add facility for advanced testing of async suspend/resume PM: Add a switch for disabling/enabling asynchronous suspend/resume PM: Asynchronous suspend and resume of devices PM: Add parent information to timing messages PM: Document device power attributes in sysfs PM / Runtime: Add sysfs switch for disabling device run-time PM
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-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power79
-rw-r--r--Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power13
-rw-r--r--Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt11
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diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..6123c523bfd
--- /dev/null
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-devices-power
@@ -0,0 +1,79 @@
+What: /sys/devices/.../power/
+Date: January 2009
+Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+ The /sys/devices/.../power directory contains attributes
+ allowing the user space to check and modify some power
+ management related properties of given device.
+
+What: /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup
+Date: January 2009
+Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+ The /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup attribute allows the user
+ space to check if the device is enabled to wake up the system
+ from sleep states, such as the memory sleep state (suspend to
+ RAM) and hibernation (suspend to disk), and to enable or disable
+ it to do that as desired.
+
+ Some devices support "wakeup" events, which are hardware signals
+ used to activate the system from a sleep state. Such devices
+ have one of the following two values for the sysfs power/wakeup
+ file:
+
+ + "enabled\n" to issue the events;
+ + "disabled\n" not to do so;
+
+ In that cases the user space can change the setting represented
+ by the contents of this file by writing either "enabled", or
+ "disabled" to it.
+
+ For the devices that are not capable of generating system wakeup
+ events this file contains "\n". In that cases the user space
+ cannot modify the contents of this file and the device cannot be
+ enabled to wake up the system.
+
+What: /sys/devices/.../power/control
+Date: January 2009
+Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+ The /sys/devices/.../power/control attribute allows the user
+ space to control the run-time power management of the device.
+
+ All devices have one of the following two values for the
+ power/control file:
+
+ + "auto\n" to allow the device to be power managed at run time;
+ + "on\n" to prevent the device from being power managed;
+
+ The default for all devices is "auto", which means that they may
+ be subject to automatic power management, depending on their
+ drivers. Changing this attribute to "on" prevents the driver
+ from power managing the device at run time. Doing that while
+ the device is suspended causes it to be woken up.
+
+What: /sys/devices/.../power/async
+Date: January 2009
+Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+ The /sys/devices/.../async attribute allows the user space to
+ enable or diasble the device's suspend and resume callbacks to
+ be executed asynchronously (ie. in separate threads, in parallel
+ with the main suspend/resume thread) during system-wide power
+ transitions (eg. suspend to RAM, hibernation).
+
+ All devices have one of the following two values for the
+ power/async file:
+
+ + "enabled\n" to permit the asynchronous suspend/resume;
+ + "disabled\n" to forbid it;
+
+ The value of this attribute may be changed by writing either
+ "enabled", or "disabled" to it.
+
+ It generally is unsafe to permit the asynchronous suspend/resume
+ of a device unless it is certain that all of the PM dependencies
+ of the device are known to the PM core. However, for some
+ devices this attribute is set to "enabled" by bus type code or
+ device drivers and in that cases it should be safe to leave the
+ default value.
diff --git a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
index dcff4d0623a..d6a801f45b4 100644
--- a/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
+++ b/Documentation/ABI/testing/sysfs-power
@@ -101,3 +101,16 @@ Description:
CAUTION: Using it will cause your machine's real-time (CMOS)
clock to be set to a random invalid time after a resume.
+
+What: /sys/power/pm_async
+Date: January 2009
+Contact: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+ The /sys/power/pm_async file controls the switch allowing the
+ user space to enable or disable asynchronous suspend and resume
+ of devices. If enabled, this feature will cause some device
+ drivers' suspend and resume callbacks to be executed in parallel
+ with each other and with the main suspend thread. It is enabled
+ if this file contains "1", which is the default. It may be
+ disabled by writing "0" to this file, in which case all devices
+ will be suspended and resumed synchronously.
diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index 0a46833c1b7..b9eba900e0f 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -64,6 +64,17 @@ Who: Robin Getz <rgetz@blackfin.uclinux.org> & Matt Mackall <mpm@selenic.com>
---------------------------
+What: Deprecated snapshot ioctls
+When: 2.6.36
+
+Why: The ioctls in kernel/power/user.c were marked as deprecated long time
+ ago. Now they notify users about that so that they need to replace
+ their userspace. After some more time, remove them completely.
+
+Who: Jiri Slaby <jirislaby@gmail.com>
+
+---------------------------
+
What: The ieee80211_regdom module parameter
When: March 2010 / desktop catchup