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@@ -51,3 +51,29 @@ Description:
                 drivers.  Changing this attribute to "on" prevents the driver
                 from power managing the device at run time.  Doing that while
                 the device is suspended causes it to be woken up.
+
+What:           /sys/devices/.../power/async
+Date:           January 2009
+Contact:        Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>
+Description:
+                The /sys/devices/.../async attribute allows the user space to
+                enable or diasble the device's suspend and resume callbacks to
+                be executed asynchronously (ie. in separate threads, in parallel
+                with the main suspend/resume thread) during system-wide power
+                transitions (eg. suspend to RAM, hibernation).
+
+                All devices have one of the following two values for the
+                power/async file:
+
+                + "enabled\n" to permit the asynchronous suspend/resume;
+                + "disabled\n" to forbid it;
+
+                The value of this attribute may be changed by writing either
+                "enabled", or "disabled" to it.
+
+                It generally is unsafe to permit the asynchronous suspend/resume
+                of a device unless it is certain that all of the PM dependencies
+                of the device are known to the PM core.  However, for some
+                devices this attribute is set to "enabled" by bus type code or
+                device drivers and in that cases it should be safe to leave the
+                default value.