[PATCH 21/47] PM: schedule /sys/devices/.../power/state for removal

[Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>]

From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>

This lists the /sys/devices/.../power/state file, and its internal support,
as due for removal next year.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
---
 Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt |   15 +++++++++++++++
 1 files changed, 15 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
index a89a1b7..611acc3 100644
--- a/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
+++ b/Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt
@@ -6,6 +6,21 @@ be removed from this file.
 
 ---------------------------
 
+What:	/sys/devices/.../power/state
+	dev->power.power_state
+	dpm_runtime_{suspend,resume)()
+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@suse.cz>
+
+---------------------------
+
 What:	RAW driver (CONFIG_RAW_DRIVER)
 When:	December 2005
 Why:	declared obsolete since kernel 2.6.3
-- 
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