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| author | Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> | 2007-04-30 15:09:53 -0700 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org> | 2007-04-30 16:40:40 -0700 |
| commit | 11d77d0c01b80e44c7aceb21928508dafce774f9 (patch) | |
| tree | 4952f15df4ea2fcdba824aec5689ee9c0c7ceb90 /Documentation/power/swsusp.txt | |
| parent | fe0c935a6cbf25d72a27c7a345df8a2151de0b74 (diff) | |
| download | lwn-11d77d0c01b80e44c7aceb21928508dafce774f9.tar.gz lwn-11d77d0c01b80e44c7aceb21928508dafce774f9.zip | |
power management: remove firmware disk mode
This patch removes the firmware disk suspend mode which is the wrong approach,
it is supposed to be used for implementing firmware-based disk suspend but
cannot actually be used for that.
Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'Documentation/power/swsusp.txt')
| -rw-r--r-- | Documentation/power/swsusp.txt | 14 |
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 9 deletions
diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt index 0761ff6c57ed..c55bd5079b90 100644 --- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt +++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt @@ -156,8 +156,7 @@ instead set the PF_NOFREEZE process flag when creating the thread (and be very careful). -Q: What is the difference between "platform", "shutdown" and -"firmware" in /sys/power/disk? +Q: What is the difference between "platform" and "shutdown"? A: @@ -166,11 +165,8 @@ shutdown: save state in linux, then tell bios to powerdown platform: save state in linux, then tell bios to powerdown and blink "suspended led" -firmware: tell bios to save state itself [needs BIOS-specific suspend - partition, and has very little to do with swsusp] - -"platform" is actually right thing to do, but "shutdown" is most -reliable. +"platform" is actually right thing to do where supported, but +"shutdown" is most reliable (except on ACPI systems). Q: I do not understand why you have such strong objections to idea of selective suspend. @@ -388,8 +384,8 @@ while the system is asleep, maintaining the connection, using true sleep modes like "suspend-to-RAM" or "standby". (Don't write "disk" to the /sys/power/state file; write "standby" or "mem".) We've not seen any hardware that can use these modes through software suspend, although in -theory some systems might support "platform" or "firmware" modes that -won't break the USB connections. +theory some systems might support "platform" modes that won't break the +USB connections. Remember that it's always a bad idea to unplug a disk drive containing a mounted filesystem. That's true even when your system is asleep! The |