Re: power/level and power/control

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On Fri, Mar 12, 2010 at 09:43, Oliver Neukum <oliver@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, 11. März 2010 17:44:59 schrieb Alan Stern:
>> Greg & Rafael:
>>
>> In 2.6.34-rc1 we have the new /sys/devices/.../power/control attribute,
>> which does exactly the same thing as USB's existing power/level
>> attribute.
>>
>> There's no reason to keep both.  I'd remove power/level entirely,
>> except that it has been in existence for a while and people may be
>> using it.
>>
>> The best solution may be to replace "level" with a symbolic link to
>> "control", and possibly also to deprecate it.  Does that seem like the
>> right thing to do?
>
> Sounds good.
>
> Has support in user space hardware abstraction layers for runtime
> power management been added? It seems to me that we need this.

There is no major project I know of, which uses these things, and
nothing I know of people would work on at the moment.

Kay
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