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To: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
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Subject: Re: Totally broken PCI PM calls
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David Brownell wrote:

> This is with /sys/power/disk set up for "shutdown";
> the system didn't actually shut down, it restarted
> the CPU right after snapshotting.
> 
> Stopping tasks: ===================|
> Freeing 
> memory: ........................................................................................................|
> Freezing CPUs (at 0)...ok
> PM: Attempting to suspend to disk.
> PM: snapshotting memory.
> Restarting CPUs...ok
> Restarting tasks... done
> eth0: Media Link On 10mbps half-duplex 

you have a swap partition?
swap enabled?

> To an file that was just added recently, making it more
> like the other file in that same directory.

recently?

>>and was not /sys expected to be "one file, 
>>one value"?
> 
> It is one value -- a set!  OK, the active member
> of that set is distinguished.  The power/state file
> could do the same thing (but the active state
> there would always be "on").

But then we would need another file which provides the information that
/sys/power/state provides now, namely what power states are available.


   Stefan