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authorJohannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>2007-04-30 15:09:53 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-04-30 16:40:40 -0700
commit11d77d0c01b80e44c7aceb21928508dafce774f9 (patch)
tree4952f15df4ea2fcdba824aec5689ee9c0c7ceb90 /Documentation/power/interface.txt
parentfe0c935a6cbf25d72a27c7a345df8a2151de0b74 (diff)
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>
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diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
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@@ -18,17 +18,10 @@ states.
/sys/power/disk controls the operating mode of the suspend-to-disk
-mechanism. Suspend-to-disk can be handled in several ways. The
-greatest distinction is who writes memory to disk - the firmware or
-the kernel. If the firmware does it, we assume that it also handles
-suspending the system.
-
-If the kernel does it, then we have three options for putting the system
-to sleep - using the platform driver (e.g. ACPI or other PM
-registers), powering off the system or rebooting the system (for
-testing). The system will support either 'firmware' or 'platform', and
-that is known a priori. But, the user may choose 'shutdown' or
-'reboot' as alternatives.
+mechanism. Suspend-to-disk can be handled in several ways. We have a
+few options for putting the system to sleep - using the platform driver
+(e.g. ACPI or other pm_ops), powering off the system or rebooting the
+system (for testing).
Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the two testing
modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc' or 'test'. If the
@@ -44,16 +37,12 @@ is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving.
Reading from this file will display what the mode is currently set
to. Writing to this file will accept one of
- 'firmware'
- 'platform'
+ 'platform' (only if the platform supports it)
'shutdown'
'reboot'
'testproc'
'test'
-It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports
-it.
-
/sys/power/image_size controls the size of the image created by
the suspend-to-disk mechanism. It can be written a string
representing a non-negative integer that will be used as an upper