Re: Small cleanups for input

James Simmons (jsimmons@infradead.org)
Wed, 9 Jul 2003 00:50:39 +0100 (BST)


> > > This needs to be migrated to the new power management code.
> >
> > What exactly should it do? Suspend machine? Then it needs to do
> > equivalent of "echo 3 > /proc/acpi/sleep", but I do not think we have
> > generic interface for that...
>
> It looks like it was intended to call an old version of the suspend
> code on ARM devices - probably the power button on the iPAQ.

Yeap. I wrote that code for use on a iPAQ. I was hoping for a generic
interface for this some time in 2.5.X.

> The correct function (in the ARM tree) is now called "suspend()" and
> deals with suspending the devices and then whatever is needed to cause
> the CPU to go into deep sleep - ie, the user visible "power off" state.

Needs updating :-)

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