[Pm-utils] pm-utils and pmu hardware.

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Mon May 1 11:59:34 PDT 2006


On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 02:18:01PM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:

> This looks to me like a kernel bug.  Why isn't "echo mem
> > /sys/power/state" doing the same thing as the ioctl handler on ppc?
> Somebody should fix that instead of special casing the userland.

This is supposed to be difficult, but I'm not sure of the precise 
details and I've never had any PMU-based hardware so haven't looked into 
it.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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