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On Fri, Apr 25, 2014 at 07:01:23PM +0200, Daniel Lezcano wrote:
> As the sysctl is some kind of ABI, I would like to make sure we reach a
> consensus and discuss a bit about that.

We could make it a sysfs file, like /sys/power/state, which when read
provides the words it takes.

That is more flexible than a numeric sysctl for which we have to keep an
enumeration.