From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S274823AbTGaQn3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:43:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S274824AbTGaQn3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:43:29 -0400 Received: from fed1mtao03.cox.net ([68.6.19.242]:2966 "EHLO fed1mtao03.cox.net") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S274823AbTGaQn2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 31 Jul 2003 12:43:28 -0400 Date: Thu, 31 Jul 2003 09:43:26 -0700 From: Tom Rini To: Ihar Philips Filipau Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Kernel 2.6 size increase Message-ID: <20030731164326.GG27214@ip68-0-152-218.tc.ph.cox.net> References: <3F294461.2020902@softhome.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <3F294461.2020902@softhome.net> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.4i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, Jul 31, 2003 at 06:31:29PM +0200, Ihar Philips Filipau wrote: > Tom Rini wrote: > > > >Power Management, sysfs plays / will play a role in finding out the order > >in which devices get powered down. This is important on some types of > >embedded devices (and arguably important everywhere). > > > > You are contradicting to yourself. > > I have participated in creation of two specialized embedded systems, > and currently going into third one. > Every system were need some specialized shutdown sequence. > None of them were need power saving. Shutdown != sleep. If you want to wake devices up again, you need to do them in the right order. -- Tom Rini http://gate.crashing.org/~trini/