Re: [RFC] expand link_power_management_policy definition

[Tejun Heo]

Jeff Garzik wrote:
> Kristen Carlson Accardi wrote:
>> I think I mentioned on the list a couple weeks ago that I favor just
>> expanding the definition of link power management to include
>> the notion of simply powering the entire port off rather
>> than adding new knobs to sysfs.  I wrote this completely untested and
>> very incomplete patch to give you a better idea of what I am proposing.
>> This patch adds a new valid value of "power_off" for the existing
>> link_power_management_policy sysfs entry:
> 
> Looks fine to me...  that would work nicely.
> 
> I think your patch is missing code to handle the transition from
> power_off to <something else>, though, right?
> 
> I'm quite happy with this approach.

I agree this is the right place to implement the control.

Thanks.

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tejun
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