[linux-pm] Some thoughts on suspend/resume development

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Hi!

> > > Uh, that would really suck. This would entail a string parser in every
> > > driver, which is what we wanted to get away from with sysfs. A better way
> > > would be to have a driver export a file with the specific features that it
> > > supports encoded in a meaningful and efficient way (i.e. a fixed-length
> > > string, character, or constant).
> > 
> > Agreed.
> 
> <heresy> I wonder if using sysfs is even the best method for doing
> run-time PM. It will force your imaginary nice userspace interface to
> include code to scan the whole directory tree looking for files of each
> kind, perhaps sorting and collating and so on. Maybe a DBus interface
> would be better? </heresy>

DBus is too hard to use from shell, and I do not think whole directory
scan is so hard to do.

								Pavel
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