linux-kernel - Re: [Update][PATCH 7/8] PM / Domains: System-wide transitions support for generic domains (v3)

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.1106231421470.2033-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 23 Jun 2011 14:22:18 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...com>,
	Linux PM mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...e.de>,
	Magnus Damm <magnus.damm@...il.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <linux-sh@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [Update][PATCH 7/8] PM / Domains: System-wide transitions support
 for generic domains (v3)

On Thu, 23 Jun 2011, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> > It should say "system suspend" rather than "system sleep".
> 
> It says "system sleep" to distinguish between the state of the system
> ("system sleep") and the operation leading to that state ("system suspend").
> That terminology is used all over the document, so I don't think it's a good
> idea to change it just for this specific paragraph.
> 
> I agree that "suspend" should be used where it talks about starting, stopping
> etc.
> 
> > Then to drive the point home, the following sentence chould say 
> > something like this:
> > 
> > If that is the case and none of the situations listed above takes place
> > (in particular, if the system is waking up from suspend and not from
> > hibernation), it may be more efficient to leave the devices that had
> > been suspended before the system suspend began in the suspended state.
> 
> That's fine by me, except that I'd simply say "(in particular, if the system
> is not waking up from hibernation)".

Okay.

Alan Stern

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