linux-toradex.git/Documentation/power, branch v2.6.23.17

Documentation:reference notifiers.txt in freezing-of-tasks.txt

2007-07-22T00:49:16+00:00

freezing-of-tasks.txt mentions firmware issues without mentioning the use
of the new notifier API to overcome them.  Here's an update.

Signed-off-by: Oliver Neukum 
Acked-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

PM: introduce hibernation and suspend notifiers

2007-07-19T17:04:42+00:00

Make it possible to register hibernation and suspend notifiers, so that
subsystems can perform hibernation-related or suspend-related operations that
should not be carried out by device drivers' .suspend() and .resume()
routines.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
[akpm@linux-foundation.org: cleanups]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Cc: Nigel Cunningham 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

Freezer: make kernel threads nonfreezable by default

2007-07-17T17:23:02+00:00

Currently, the freezer treats all tasks as freezable, except for the kernel
threads that explicitly set the PF_NOFREEZE flag for themselves.  This
approach is problematic, since it requires every kernel thread to either
set PF_NOFREEZE explicitly, or call try_to_freeze(), even if it doesn't
care for the freezing of tasks at all.

It seems better to only require the kernel threads that want to or need to
be frozen to use some freezer-related code and to remove any
freezer-related code from the other (nonfreezable) kernel threads, which is
done in this patch.

The patch causes all kernel threads to be nonfreezable by default (ie.  to
have PF_NOFREEZE set by default) and introduces the set_freezable()
function that should be called by the freezable kernel threads in order to
unset PF_NOFREEZE.  It also makes all of the currently freezable kernel
threads call set_freezable(), so it shouldn't cause any (intentional)
change of behaviour to appear.  Additionally, it updates documentation to
describe the freezing of tasks more accurately.

[akpm@linux-foundation.org: build fixes]
Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Acked-by: Nigel Cunningham 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: Oleg Nesterov 
Cc: Gautham R Shenoy 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

USB: add USB-Persist facility

2007-07-12T23:29:47+00:00

This patch (as886) adds the controversial USB-persist facility,
allowing USB devices to persist across a power loss during system
suspend.

The facility is controlled by a new Kconfig option (with appropriate
warnings about the potential dangers); when the option is off the
behavior will remain the same as it is now.  But when the option is
on, people will be able to use suspend-to-disk and keep their USB
filesystems intact -- something particularly valuable for small
machines where the root filesystem is on a USB device!

Signed-off-by: Alan Stern 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

PCI: remove useless pci driver method

2007-07-11T23:02:08+00:00

Remove pointless and never-called enable_wake() hook from pci_driver and
from documentation.  Evidently this was introduced in the 2.4.6 kernel,
but there's no evidence it was ever called; and it was rarely implemented.

Signed-off-by: David Brownell 
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman

Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial

2007-05-09T19:54:17+00:00

* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bunk/trivial: (25 commits)
  sound: convert "sound" subdirectory to UTF-8
  MAINTAINERS: Add cxacru website/mailing list
  include files: convert "include" subdirectory to UTF-8
  general: convert "kernel" subdirectory to UTF-8
  documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8
  Convert the toplevel files CREDITS and MAINTAINERS to UTF-8.
  remove broken URLs from net drivers' output
  Magic number prefix consistency change to Documentation/magic-number.txt
  trivial: s/i_sem /i_mutex/
  fix file specification in comments
  drivers/base/platform.c: fix small typo in doc
  misc doc and kconfig typos
  Remove obsolete fat_cvf help text
  Fix occurrences of "the the "
  Fix minor typoes in kernel/module.c
  Kconfig: Remove reference to external mqueue library
  Kconfig: A couple of grammatical fixes in arch/i386/Kconfig
  Correct comments in genrtc.c to refer to correct /proc file.
  Fix more "deprecated" spellos.
  Fix "deprecated" typoes.
  ...

Fix trivial comment conflict in kernel/relay.c.

PM: Separate hibernation code from suspend code

2007-05-09T19:30:48+00:00

[ With Johannes Berg  ]

Separate the hibernation (aka suspend to disk code) from the other suspend
code.  In particular:

 * Remove the definitions related to hibernation from include/linux/pm.h
 * Introduce struct hibernation_ops and a new hibernate() function to hibernate
   the system, defined in include/linux/suspend.h
 * Separate suspend code in kernel/power/main.c from hibernation-related code
   in kernel/power/disk.c and kernel/power/user.c (with the help of
   hibernation_ops)
 * Switch ACPI (the only user of pm_ops.pm_disk_mode) to hibernation_ops

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Greg KH 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: Nigel Cunningham 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

documentation: convert the Documentation directory to UTF-8

2007-05-09T06:58:19+00:00

Convert files within the Documentation directory to UTF-8.

Adrian Bunk:
small additional fixes

Signed-off-by: John Anthony Kazos Jr. 
Signed-off-by: Adrian Bunk

Documentation: Ask driver writers to provide PM support

2007-05-08T18:14:59+00:00

Add a paragraph in Documentation/SubmittingDrivers requesting that the
basic PM support be provided by new device drivers.

Add two new documents in Documentation/power/ giving general instructions
on debugging the suspend/resume functionality and testing the suspend and
resume support in device drivers.

Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki 
Cc: Pavel Machek 
Cc: David Brownell 
Cc: Nigel Cunningham 
Cc: Alan Cox 
Cc: Greg KH 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds

power management: change /sys/power/disk display

2007-05-07T19:12:59+00:00

Change /sys/power/disk to display all valid modes as well as the currently
selected one in a fashion known from the LED subsystem.

This changes userspace API, but it is apparently not used much (we asked
some userspace developers)

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg 
Acked-by: "Rafael J. Wysocki" 
Acked-by: Pavel Machek 
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton 
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds