On Thu 2008-02-21 11:33:50, David Brownell wrote:

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libata uses it under the assumption that "other parts" of the system are 
aware of this variable.

There are no other relevant parts, except one debug printk that is
getting removed.

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May I assume that the API has changed such that this is no longer necessary?

Yes.  The original motivation for dev->power.power_state was to let

ACK.

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