Merge master.kernel.org:/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/herbert/crypto-2.6

[linux-drm-fsl-dcu.git] / Documentation / power / interface.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
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--- a/Documentation/power/interface.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
@@ -18,17 +18,10 @@ states.
 
 
 /sys/power/disk controls the operating mode of the suspend-to-disk
-mechanism. Suspend-to-disk can be handled in several ways. The
-greatest distinction is who writes memory to disk - the firmware or
-the kernel. If the firmware does it, we assume that it also handles
-suspending the system. 
-
-If the kernel does it, then we have three options for putting the system
-to sleep - using the platform driver (e.g. ACPI or other PM
-registers), powering off the system or rebooting the system (for
-testing). The system will support either 'firmware' or 'platform', and
-that is known a priori. But, the user may choose 'shutdown' or
-'reboot' as alternatives. 
+mechanism. Suspend-to-disk can be handled in several ways. We have a
+few options for putting the system to sleep - using the platform driver
+(e.g. ACPI or other pm_ops), powering off the system or rebooting the
+system (for testing).
 
 Additionally, /sys/power/disk can be used to turn on one of the two testing
 modes of the suspend-to-disk mechanism: 'testproc' or 'test'.  If the
@@ -41,19 +34,19 @@ for 5 seconds, resume devices, unfreeze tasks and enable nonboot CPUs.  Then,
 we are able to look in the log messages and work out, for example, which code
 is being slow and which device drivers are misbehaving.
 
-Reading from this file will display what the mode is currently set
-to. Writing to this file will accept one of
+Reading from this file will display all supported modes and the currently
+selected one in brackets, for example
 
-       'firmware'
-       'platform'
+       [shutdown] reboot test testproc
+
+Writing to this file will accept one of
+
+       'platform' (only if the platform supports it)
        'shutdown'
        'reboot'
        'testproc'
        'test'
 
-It will only change to 'firmware' or 'platform' if the system supports
-it. 
-
 /sys/power/image_size controls the size of the image created by
 the suspend-to-disk mechanism.  It can be written a string
 representing a non-negative integer that will be used as an upper