PM: Suspend/hibernation debug documentation update (rev. 2)

[linux-2.6-omap-h63xx.git] / Documentation / power / drivers-testing.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt b/Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt
index e4bdcaee24e46e6805caf0e0a9edfc9d57638402..7f7a737f7f9fd785deacaf4f3aaaf56d87a21c11 100644 (file)
--- a/Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/drivers-testing.txt
@@ -6,9 +6,9 @@ Testing suspend and resume support in device drivers
 Unfortunately, to effectively test the support for the system-wide suspend and
 resume transitions in a driver, it is necessary to suspend and resume a fully
 functional system with this driver loaded.  Moreover, that should be done
-several times, preferably several times in a row, and separately for the suspend
-to disk (STD) and the suspend to RAM (STR) transitions, because each of these
-cases involves different ordering of operations and different interactions with
+several times, preferably several times in a row, and separately for hibernation
+(aka suspend to disk or STD) and suspend to RAM (STR), because each of these
+cases involves slightly different operations and different interactions with
 the machine's BIOS.
 
 Of course, for this purpose the test system has to be known to suspend and
@@ -22,20 +22,24 @@ for more information about the debugging of suspend/resume functionality.
 Once you have resolved the suspend/resume-related problems with your test system
 without the new driver, you are ready to test it:
 
-a) Build the driver as a module, load it and try the STD in the test mode (see:
-Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1a)).
+a) Build the driver as a module, load it and try the test modes of hibernation
+   (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1).
 
-b) Load the driver and attempt to suspend to disk in the "reboot", "shutdown"
-and "platform" modes (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1).
+b) Load the driver and attempt to hibernate in the "reboot", "shutdown" and
+   "platform" modes (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 1).
 
-c) Compile the driver directly into the kernel and try the STD in the test mode.
+c) Compile the driver directly into the kernel and try the test modes of
+   hibernation.
 
-d) Attempt to suspend to disk with the driver compiled directly into the kernel
-in the "reboot", "shutdown" and "platform" modes.
+d) Attempt to hibernate with the driver compiled directly into the kernel
+   in the "reboot", "shutdown" and "platform" modes.
 
-e) Attempt to suspend to RAM using the s2ram tool with the driver loaded (see:
-Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 2).  As far as the STR tests are
-concerned, it should not matter whether or not the driver is built as a module.
+e) Try the test modes of suspend (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt,
+   2).  [As far as the STR tests are concerned, it should not matter whether or
+   not the driver is built as a module.]
+
+f) Attempt to suspend to RAM using the s2ram tool with the driver loaded
+   (see: Documents/power/basic-pm-debugging.txt, 2).
 
 Each of the above tests should be repeated several times and the STD tests
 should be mixed with the STR tests.  If any of them fails, the driver cannot be