On Monday 19 January 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > On Mon, Jan 19, 2009 at 08:54:54PM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > > > > Introduce boolean function system_entering_hibernation() returning > > 'true' during the last phase of hibernation, in which devices are > > being put into low power states and the sleep state (for example, > > ACPI S4) is finally entered. > > > > Some device drivers need such a function to check if the system is > > in the final phase of hibernation. In particular, some SATA drivers > > are going to use it for blacklisting systems in which the disks > > should not be spun down during the last phase of hibernation (the > > BIOS will do that anyway). > > > > Hi Rafael, > > Why not using the power event notifier? I'm not sure what you mean exactly, care to elaborate? Anyway, however, this is a pretty old patch series and I'm not very much interested in reworking it once again. If you think it can be made better, please go on. :-) Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ide" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
