Re: [linux-pm] Re: [RFD] How to tell ACPI drivers what the target sleep state is (was: Re: [PATCH 1/2] acpi choose sleep state help)

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Hi!

> > > IMO it can be done in two different ways:
> > > 1) via a .suspend() argument
> > > 2) via a global variable that the drivers can read.
> 
> For sufficiently small values of "two" that is.  
> 
> Other solutions that have been described on the PM list include
> 
>   3) Providing accessors to the information actually needed
>      in drivers ... e.g. say whether this clock or power domain
>      will be available in that target state.
> 
>   4) Act more like "current" ... there's a function returning
>      whatever "state" struct is settled on.  (But ideally
>      without the pseudo-global.)
> 
> I'm amused that nobody really reacted to the technical comments in
> my previous posts on this thread.  That's unfortunate, since from
> where I sit it feels to me like everyone else is a johnny-come-lately
> on this issue, and is now grasping at the quickest and dirtiest ways
> to work around the issue instead of coming to grasp with the various
> underlying issues.

Well, rest of the word is still using PC here, so johny-come-lately
may not be completely unexpected.

Could you push framework for some embedded system you care about? OLPC
by chance?

> IMO #3 is strongly preferable.

3) actually looks ok to me. For acpi it would mean

int acpi_state_we_are_entering(void)

returning S1..S4, right?

> But I really thought the discussion on new PM methods, back a
> couple months now, was going to finally get rid of that.

Umm, well, when someone gets to implement that...
								Pavel
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