[PATCH] GEODE: decouple sleep/resume from powerdown/powerup

Bernardo Innocenti bernie at codewiz.org
Fri Oct 5 14:38:24 EDT 2007


On 10/05/2007 09:15 AM, Pavel Machek wrote:

>> This patch merges the fb_powerup and fb_powerdown hooks in a single
>> operation fb_power with an additional "state" parameter ranging
>> from 0 (running) to 3 (poweroff).
> 
> No, please don't. Having int with 0/3 being valid specifying what to
> do is evil.
> 
> enum is less evil, but what's wrong about having 3 functions?

Later on, the patch was reworked by Jordan Crouse to use
the fb_blank hook instead, which already has enough states.

So the fb_powerup/fb_powerdown hooks, which were not yet
upstream anyway, died off in the process.

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