linux-kernel - Re: many items in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt have expired, please update

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Date:	Thu, 20 Mar 2008 21:22:16 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	rae l <crquan@...il.com>
Cc:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>, Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>,
	Dominik Brodowski <linux@...do.de>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...ux.intel.com>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>,
	Stephen Hemminger <shemminger@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: many items in Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt have expired, please update

On Thu 2008-03-20 21:22:29, rae l wrote:
> I noticed that many feature removal schedule marked in this file have
> expired, so please update information:
> 1. if the feature has been removed, please remove it from this file;
> 2. if it does not, please update the schedule date;


> What:	dev->power.power_state
> When:	July 2007
> Why:	Broken design for runtime control over driver power states, confusing
> 	driver-internal runtime power management with:  mechanisms to support
> 	system-wide sleep state transitions; event codes that distinguish
> 	different phases of swsusp "sleep" transitions; and userspace policy
> 	inputs.  This framework was never widely used, and most attempts to
> 	use it were broken.  Drivers should instead be exposing domain-specific
> 	interfaces either to kernel or to userspace.
> Who:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>

Feel free to help killing remaining power_state users, then it can
disappear.

I won't update the date: it is in past to remind people that it should
have been killed already.

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