Re: A minimally power-aware driver treats all messages as SUSPEND?

[Linus Torvalds]

On Tue, 1 Jul 2008, Uwe Kleine-König wrote:
> 
> This was introduced in commit 82bb67f2 by David Brownell.  At this time
> PM_EVENT_HIBERNATE didn't exist.  This was added in 3a2d5b70 by Rafael
> J. Wysocki without updating the above sentence.  I think a minimally
> power-aware driver should treat all messages as HIBERNATE, shouldn't it?

No.

A minimally power-aware driver should aim to work with STR.

HIBERNATE should be a secondary goal (if even that).

			Linus
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