Re: [PATCH] rtcwake: test for available suspend modes

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On Thu, Feb 10, 2011 at 10:02:20AM +0100, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-02-09 at 18:46 +0100, Lawrence Rust wrote:
> > This patch adds a test to rtcwake to verify that the requested suspend
> > mode (standby|mem|disk) is available.  If not it exits with error.
> > 
> > This avoids the current situation where a request to suspend with an
> > unsupported mode fails quietly and rtcwake returns immediately.
> > 
> > See linux-2.6.37/Documentation/power/interface.txt
> 
> Oops, looking at the kernel code some more:
> 
> linux-2.6.37/kernel/power/main.c function state_show()
> 
> It seems that reading /sys/power/state results in a space separated list
> rather than the highest state supported as I had believed.  This makes
> the code somewhat easier.  So here's the revised form
> 
> Signed-off-by: Lawrence Rust <lawrence(at)softsystem(dot)co(dot)uk>

 Applied, thanks.

    Karel

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