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2008-02-07PM: documentation cleanupsPavel Machek
Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01PM: Remove obsolete /sys/devices/.../power/state docsDavid Brownell
The /sys/devices/.../power/state files have been gone for a while now, but I just noticed some documentation that still refers to them. (Fortunately described as DEPRECATED and WILL REMOVE). Time to remove that obsolete documentation too ... Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01PM: Suspend/hibernation debug documentation update (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Update the suspend/hibernation debugging and testing documentation to describe the newly introduced testing facilities. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Add PM_RESTORE_PREPARE and PM_POST_RESTORE notifiers (rev. 2)Alan Stern
Add PM_RESTORE_PREPARE and PM_POST_RESTORE notifiers to the PM core, to be used in analogy with the existing PM_HIBERNATION_PREPARE and PM_POST_HIBERNATION notifiers. Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Introduce exportable suspend ioctls header (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Move the definitions of hibernation ioctls to a separate header file in include/linux, which can be exported to the user space. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Correct definitions of some ioctls (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Three ioctl numbers belonging to the hibernation userland interface, SNAPSHOT_ATOMIC_SNAPSHOT, SNAPSHOT_AVAIL_SWAP, SNAPSHOT_GET_SWAP_PAGE, are defined in a wrong way (eg. not portable). Provide new ioctl numbers for these ioctls and mark the existing ones as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Mark SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl as deprecated (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Mark the SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl belonging to the hibernation userland interface as deprecated. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Rework platform support ioctls (rev. 2)Rafael J. Wysocki
Modify the hibernation userland interface by adding two new ioctls to it, SNAPSHOT_PLATFORM_SUPPORT and SNAPSHOT_POWER_OFF, that can be used, respectively, to switch the hibernation platform support on/off and to make the kernel transition the system to the hibernation state (eg. ACPI S4) using the platform (eg. ACPI) driver. These ioctls are intended to replace the misdesigned SNAPSHOT_PMOPS ioctl, which from now is regarded as obsolete and will be removed in the future. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2008-02-01Hibernation: Introduce SNAPSHOT_GET_IMAGE_SIZE ioctlRafael J. Wysocki
Add a new ioctl, SNAPSHOT_GET_IMAGE_SIZE, returning the size of the (just created) hibernation image, to the hibernation userland interface. This ioctl is necessary so that the userland utilities using the interface need not access the hibernation image header, owned by the kernel, in order to obtain the size of the image. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Len Brown <len.brown@intel.com>
2007-10-20typo fixesMatt LaPlante
Most of these fixes were already submitted for old kernel versions, and were approved, but for some reason they never made it into the releases. Because this is a consolidation of a couple old missed patches, it touches both Kconfigs and documentation texts. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@kernel.org>
2007-10-18serial: turn serial console suspend a boot rather than compile time optionAndres Salomon
Currently, there's a CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND that allows one to stop the serial console from being suspended when the rest of the machine goes to sleep. This is incredibly useful for debugging power management-related things; however, having it as a compile-time option has proved to be incredibly inconvenient for us (OLPC). There are plenty of times that we want serial console to not suspend, but for the most part we'd like serial console to be suspended. This drops CONFIG_DISABLE_CONSOLE_SUSPEND, and replaces it with a kernel boot parameter (no_console_suspend). By default, the serial console will be suspended along with the rest of the system; by passing 'no_console_suspend' to the kernel during boot, serial console will remain alive during suspend. For now, this is pretty serial console specific; further fixes could be applied to make this work for things like netconsole. Signed-off-by: Andres Salomon <dilinger@debian.org> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> Cc: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18freezer: do not send signals to kernel threadsRafael J. Wysocki
The freezer should not send signals to kernel threads, since that may lead to subtle problems. In particular, commit b74d0deb968e1f85942f17080eace015ce3c332c has changed recalc_sigpending_tsk() so that it doesn't clear TIF_SIGPENDING. For this reason, if the freezer continues to send fake signals to kernel threads and the freezing of kernel threads fails, some of them may be running with TIF_SIGPENDING set forever. Accordingly, recalc_sigpending_tsk() shouldn't set the task's TIF_SIGPENDING flag if TIF_FREEZE is set. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18freezer: document relationship with memory shrinkingRafael J. Wysocki
One important reason to freeze tasks, which is that we don't want them to allocate memory after freeing it for the hibernation image, has not been documented. Fix it. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-18PM: Rename struct pm_ops and related thingsRafael J. Wysocki
The name of 'struct pm_ops' suggests that it is related to the power management in general, but in fact it is only related to suspend.  Moreover, its name should indicate what this structure is used for, so it seems reasonable to change it to 'struct platform_suspend_ops'.  In that case, the name of the global variable of this type used by the PM core and the names of related functions should be changed accordingly. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Add Documentation/power/00-INDEXRob Landley
Add Documentation/power/00-INDEX Signed-off-by: Rob Landley <rob@landley.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-10-17Fix wrong filename reference in drivers-testing.txtRalf Baechle
Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-21Documentation:reference notifiers.txt in freezing-of-tasks.txtOliver Neukum
freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use of the new notifier API to overcome them. Here's an update. Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum <oneukum@suse.de> Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-19PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiersRafael J. Wysocki
Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume() routines. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-17Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by defaultRafael J. Wysocki
Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves. This approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't care for the freezing of tasks at all. It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is done in this patch. The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie. to have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable() function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to unset PF_NOFREEZE. It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional) change of behaviour to appear. Additionally, it updates documentation to describe the freezing of tasks more accurately. [akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes] Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Oleg Nesterov <oleg@tv-sign.ru> Cc: Gautham R Shenoy <ego@in.ibm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-07-12USB: add USB-Persist facilityAlan Stern
This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility, allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system suspend. The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the behavior will remain the same as it is now. But when the option is on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device! Signed-off-by: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-07-11PCI: remove useless pci driver methodDavid Brownell
Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and from documentation. Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel, but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-05-09Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivialLinus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits) sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8 MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8 general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8 documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8 Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8. remove broken URLs from net drivers' output Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/ fix file specification in comments drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc misc doc and kconfig typos Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text Fix occurrences of "the the " Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file. Fix more "deprecated" spellos. Fix "deprecated" typoes. ... Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.
2007-05-09PM: Separate hibernation code from suspend codeRafael J. Wysocki
[ With Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> ] Separate the hibernation (aka suspend to disk code) from the other suspend code. In particular: * Remove the definitions related to hibernation from include/linux/pm.h * Introduce struct hibernation_ops and a new hibernate() function to hibernate the system, defined in include/linux/suspend.h * Separate suspend code in kernel/power/main.c from hibernation-related code in kernel/power/disk.c and kernel/power/user.c (with the help of hibernation_ops) * Switch ACPI (the only user of pm_ops.pm_disk_mode) to hibernation_ops Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-09documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8John Anthony Kazos Jr
Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8. Adrian Bunk: small additional fixes Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. <jakj@j-a-k-j.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2007-05-08Documentation: Ask driver writers to provide PM supportRafael J. Wysocki
Add a paragraph in Documentation/SubmittingDrivers requesting that the basic PM support be provided by new device drivers. Add two new documents in Documentation/power/ giving general instructions on debugging the suspend/resume functionality and testing the suspend and resume support in device drivers. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org> Cc: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-07power management: change /sys/power/disk displayJohannes Berg
Change /sys/power/disk to display all valid modes as well as the currently selected one in a fashion known from the LED subsystem. This changes userspace API, but it is apparently not used much (we asked some userspace developers) Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-05-02PCI Documentation: power/pci.txt fix copy/paste errorRandy Dunlap
Correct function name copy-paste error. Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@oracle.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2007-04-30power management: remove firmware disk modeJohannes Berg
This patch removes the firmware disk suspend mode which is the wrong approach, it is supposed to be used for implementing firmware-based disk suspend but cannot actually be used for that. Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org> Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net> Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk> Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com> Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2007-03-26PCI: Fix up PCI power management docJonathan Corbet
Update the documentation of PCI power management functions. Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-12-07[PATCH] s2ram debugging documentationPavel Machek
Linus posted quite nice TRACE_RESUME how-to, and I think it is too nice to be hidden in archives of mailing list, so I turned it into Documentation piece. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] swsusp: update userland interface documentationRafael J. Wysocki
The swsusp userland interface has recently changed for a couple of times, but the changes have not been documented. Fix this, and document the SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA ioctl(). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-12-07[PATCH] swsusp: document support for swap filesRafael J. Wysocki
Document the "resume_offset=" command line parameter as well as the way in which swap files are supported by swsusp. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-11-30Fix typos in doc and commentsJan Engelhardt
Changes persistant -> persistent. www.dictionary.com does not know persistant (with an A), but should it be one of those things you can spell in more than one correct way, let me know. Signed-off-by: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@gmx.de> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-30Fix typos in /Documentation : MiscMatt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some misc words. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-11-03[PATCH] swsusp: debuggingRafael J. Wysocki
Add a swsusp debugging mode. This does everything that's needed for a suspend except for actually suspending. So we can look in the log messages and work out a) what code is being slow and b) which drivers are misbehaving. (1) # echo testproc > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, wait for 5 seconds and then thaw the processes and the CPU. (2) # echo test > /sys/power/disk # echo disk > /sys/power/state This should turn off the non-boot CPU, freeze all processes, shrink memory, suspend all devices, wait for 5 seconds, resume the devices etc. Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Cc: Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-10-03Documentation: remove duplicated wordsPaolo Ornati
Remove many duplicated words under Documentation/ and do other small cleanups. Examples: "and and" --> "and" "in in" --> "in" "the the" --> "the" "the the" --> "to the" ... Signed-off-by: Paolo Ornati <ornati@fastwebnet.it> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'S'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letter 'S'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Alan Cox <alan@redhat.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'N'-'P'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'N'-'P'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'H'-'M'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. The patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'H'-'M'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Acked-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xenotime.net> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-10-03Fix typos in Documentation/: 'D'-'E'Matt LaPlante
This patch fixes typos in various Documentation txts. This patch addresses some words starting with the letters 'D'-'E'. Signed-off-by: Matt LaPlante <kernel1@cyberdogtech.com> Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
2006-09-26Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6Linus Torvalds
* master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/driver-2.6: (47 commits) Driver core: Don't call put methods while holding a spinlock Driver core: Remove unneeded routines from driver core Driver core: Fix potential deadlock in driver core PCI: enable driver multi-threaded probe Driver Core: add ability for drivers to do a threaded probe sysfs: add proper sysfs_init() prototype drivers/base: check errors drivers/base: Platform notify needs to occur before drivers attach to the device v4l-dev2: handle __must_check add CONFIG_ENABLE_MUST_CHECK add __must_check to device management code Driver core: fixed add_bind_files() definition Driver core: fix comments in drivers/base/power/resume.c sysfs_remove_bin_file: no return value, dump_stack on error kobject: must_check fixes Driver core: add ability for devices to create and remove bin files Class: add support for class interfaces for devices Driver core: create devices/virtual/ tree Driver core: add device_rename function Driver core: add ability for classes to handle devices properly ...
2006-09-26[PATCH] PM: Add pm_trace switchRafael J. Wysocki
Add the pm_trace attribute in /sys/power which has to be explicitly set to one to really enable the "PM tracing" code compiled in when CONFIG_PM_TRACE is set (which modifies the machine's CMOS clock in unpredictable ways). Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-09-25updated Documentation/power/devices.txtDavid Brownell
This turned into a rewrite of Documentation/power/devices.txt: - Provide more of the "big picture" - Fixup some of the horribly ancient/obsolete description of device suspend() semantics; lots of text just got deleted. - Add a decent description of PM_EVENT_* codes, including the new PRETHAW code needed in some swsusp scenarios. - Describe the new PM factorization from Linus: * class suspend, current suspend, then suspend_late * NOT suspend_prepare, it wasn't really usable * resume_early, current resume, class resume. - Updates power/state docs to be correct, and deprecate its usage except for driver testing. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-23[PATCH] swsusp: documentation updatesPavel Machek
Update documentation a bit, add more machines to video.txt list. Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-06-21[PATCH] USB: correct the USB info in Documentation/power/swsusp.txtDavid Brownell
The swsusp.txt documentation harshes confusingly on USB, and this patch addresses the issue. It's harsh because it blames USB for some issues that are generic to all drivers -- especially those supporting removable media -- and it's confusing since it says that USB has the issue with "suspend" not just swsusp ... while in reality, USB doesn't have the issue when real system suspend states are used. Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-06-21[PATCH] remove duplication from Documentation/power/devices.txtDavid Brownell
Remove a chunk of duplicated documentation text. Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
2006-04-28[PATCH] suspend: Documentation update for IBM Thinkpad X30Antonino A. Daplas
As reported in Bugzilla Bug 6406, resume from S3 results in a blank screen. For the IBM Thinkpad X30 using vesafb as the console driver, successful resume from S3 requires option acpi_sleep=s3_bios,s3_mode. Update documentation. I would presume that, in any hardware, using vesafb as the console driver will require as a minimum s3_mode. Signed-off-by: Antonino Daplas <adaplas@pol.net> Cc: <igor47@uchicago.edu> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23[PATCH] swsusp: userland interfaceRafael J. Wysocki
This patch introduces a user space interface for swsusp. The interface is based on a special character device, called the snapshot device, that allows user space processes to perform suspend and resume-related operations with the help of some ioctls and the read()/write() functions.  Additionally it allows these processes to allocate free swap pages from a selected swap partition, called the resume partition, so that they know which sectors of the resume partition are available to them. The interface uses the same low-level system memory snapshot-handling functions that are used by the built-it swap-writing/reading code of swsusp. The interface documentation is included in the patch. The patch assumes that the major and minor numbers of the snapshot device will be 10 (ie. misc device) and 231, the registration of which has already been requested. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-03-23[PATCH] swsusp: documentation updatesPavel Machek
Update suspend-to-RAM documentation with new machines, and makes message when processes can't be stopped little clearer. (In one case, waiting longer actually did help). From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> Warn in the documentation that data may be lost if there are some filesystems mounted from USB devices before suspend. [Thanks to Alan Stern for providing the answer to the question in the Q:-A: part.] Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
2006-02-01[PATCH] swsusp: use bytes as image size unitsRafael J. Wysocki
Make swsusp use bytes as the image size units, which is needed for future compatibility. Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>