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[PATCH] Tell people not to use pm_register() 

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>
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Pavel Machek 2005-09-13 01:25:46 -07:00 committed by Linus Torvalds
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@ -38,6 +38,12 @@ system the associated daemon will exit gracefully.
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