ACPI driver will override and disable APM, otherwise the APM driver
will be used.
-No sorry, you can not have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at
+No, sorry, you cannot have both ACPI and APM enabled and running at
once. Some people with broken ACPI or broken APM implementations
would like to use both to get a full set of working features, but you
-simply can not mix and match the two. Only one power management
+simply cannot mix and match the two. Only one power management
interface can be in control of the machine at once. Think about it..
User-space Daemons
Driver Interface -- OBSOLETE, DO NOT USE!
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+
+Note: pm_register(), pm_access(), pm_dev_idle() and friends are
+obsolete. Please do not use them. Instead you should properly hook
+your driver into the driver model, and use its suspend()/resume()
+callbacks to do this kind of stuff.
+
If you are writing a new driver or maintaining an old driver, it
should include power management support. Without power management
support, a single driver may prevent a system with power management
*
* Returns: 0 if the request is successful
* EINVAL if the request is not supported
- * EBUSY if the device is now busy and can not handle the request
+ * EBUSY if the device is now busy and cannot handle the request
* ENOMEM if the device was unable to handle the request due to memory
*
* Details: The device request callback will be called before the
Q: Who do I contact for additional information about
enabling power management for my specific driver/device?
-ACPI Development mailing list: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net
+ACPI Development mailing list: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org
System Interface -- OBSOLETE, DO NOT USE!
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