Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/2] PM / Runtime: Add sysfs switch for disablingdevice run-time PM (rev. 2)

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Fri Feb 05 2010 - 03:01:28 EST


Hi Pavel et al.

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
>> /*
>> + * control - Report/change current runtime PM setting of the device
>> + *
>> + * Runtime power management of a device can be blocked with the help of
>> + * this attribute. All devices have one of the following two values for
>> + * the power/control file:
>> + *
>> + * + "auto\n" to allow the device to be power managed at run time;
>> + * + "on\n" to prevent the device from being power managed at run time;
>
> I find interface with mandatory \n quite 'interesting'.

Agreed.

> Plus english is strange here. All devices have ... "auto" to allow...?
> Strange formulation. List the values first, then add "write ... to allow"?

It seems okay to me because of the preceding sentence ending in a colon.

Regards,

Nigel

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