Power Mangement Interfaces

[Zhang Rui]

On Tue, 2007-04-03 at 02:24 +0800, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 02 April 2007 3:23 am, Zhang Rui wrote:
> > If a device is also described in ACPI namespace, it should know its
> ACPI
> > device node in sysfs.
> 
> What about PCI or PNP devices that have "shadow" listings in ACPI?
> 
what do you mean "devices that have shadow listings in ACPI"? :)
Sorry I'm not quite familiar with pci and pnp devices.

> > > And while it seems that the three USB controllers on this system
> show up
> > > as /sys/devices/acpi_system:00/device:00/PNP0A03:00/device:
> {01,02,03} I
> > > have no idea which one is /sys/devices/pci0000:00/0000:00:02.2
> versus
> > > 0000:00:02.1 or 0000:00:02.0 ... I know that USB0 is device:01 and
> so
> > > on (by reading "path"), but associating one with a PCI device
> seems to
> > > involve pure guesswork.
> >
> > Sorry to make you confused.
> > That's what we need to improve in the wish list. :)
> 
> Do you mean the "ACPI 4.0" wishlist?  Or the "Linux ACPI" wishlist?
> 
No, as part of the ACPI sysfs conversion work, it's just the things that
are not finished now and I wish to do in the near future.

Thanks,
Rui