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The following table shows the Power Management I/O controls with a description of the purpose of each.

I/O control Description

IOCTL_POWER_CAPABILITIES

Checks device-specific capabilities.

IOCTL_POWER_GET

Gets the current device power state.

IOCTL_POWER_QUERY

Checks whether changing power state is feasible. This I/O control is deprecated and is not called by Power Manager.

IOCTL_POWER_SET

Requests a change from one device power state to another.

IOCTL_REGISTER_POWER_RELATIONSHIP

Notifies the parent device so the parent device can register all devices it controls.

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