power management: remove firmware disk mode

This patch removes the firmware disk suspend mode which is the wrong approach,
it is supposed to be used for implementing firmware-based disk suspend but
cannot actually be used for that.

Signed-off-by: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net>
Acked-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
Cc: <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Cc: David Brownell <david-b@pacbell.net>
Cc: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Paul Mundt <lethal@linux-sh.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>

1 files changed, 5 insertions, 16 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/power/interface.txt b/Documentation/power/interface.txt
index 74311d7e0f3c..8c5b41bf3f36 100644
--- 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
@@ -44,16 +37,12 @@ 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
 
-       'firmware'
-       'platform'
+       '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