Re: [linux-pm][PATCH] base: Change power/wakeup output from "" to "unsupported" if wakeup feature isn't supported by a device

[Yi Yang]

On Fri, 2008-01-04 at 08:09 -0800, David Brownell wrote:
> > > This patch changes empty output to "unsupported" in order that a user knows
> > > wakeup feature isn't supported by this device when he/she
> > > 'cat /sys/devices/.../power/wakeup', please consider to apply,
> > > thanks.
> >
> > What about simply removing "wakuep" file if wakeup is not supported?
> 
> It may not *stay* unsupported, so I think changing it in either
> of those permanent ways would be confusing/misleading.
> 
> For example, USB devices have multiple states ... minimally, an
> unconfigured state, and a configured state.  Some have multiple
> configurations.  Only configured states can be wakeup-capable.
> So a given device might have three states, but support wakeup
> except in one of them...
If so, we can change "unsupported" to "unconfigurable" or "inoperable"
which can cover the states "unconfigured", "unsupported" and other
unknown states. :-).
> 
> - Dave
> 

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