PM: add kconfig option for deprecated .../power/state files
Add a new PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED config option to control whether or
not the /sys/devices/.../power/state files are provided. This will
make it easier to get rid of that mechanism when the time comes,
and to verify that userspace tools work right without it.
Signed-off-by: David Brownell <dbrownell@users.sourceforge.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>
diff --git a/kernel/power/Kconfig b/kernel/power/Kconfig
index 619ecab..1ed9720 100644
--- a/kernel/power/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig
@@ -53,6 +53,17 @@
CAUTION: this option will cause your machine's real-time clock to be
set to an invalid time after a resume.
+config PM_SYSFS_DEPRECATED
+ bool "Driver model /sys/devices/.../power/state files (DEPRECATED)"
+ depends on PM && SYSFS
+ default n
+ help
+ The driver model started out with a sysfs file intended to provide
+ a userspace hook for device power management. This feature has never
+ worked very well, except for limited testing purposes, and so it will
+ be removed. It's not clear that a generic mechanism could really
+ handle the wide variability of device power states; any replacements
+ are likely to be bus or driver specific.
config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
bool "Software Suspend"