Re: New Power Managment code

[Patrick Mochel]

> Something I'm curious on wrt to this new work. Would it make sense for
> these callbacks to get called before/after APM suspend as well as ACPI ?
> (I'm thinking of older pre-ACPI compliant boxes).
>
> Saving state of devices etc seems a logical thing to do.

Yes, it's entirely possible, and seems like a good thing to do.

The original motivation behind it was to replace struct pm_dev and the
callbacks for it. I haven't looked it into replacing them in the APM code
or the power management code for other architectures, but it shouldn't be
that painful. Hopefully.

	-pat