Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5 | Date | Fri, 26 Oct 2001 13:38:02 +0100 (BST) | From | Alan Cox <> |
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> Telling the kernel to suspend while burning a CD is > on the same level as ejecting the CD while burning. > It has to go wrong. Someone explicitly asking for > trouble might as well get it.
It need not be someone asking for trouble. It might just be a ten minute "nothing happened" timeout that starts the decision making.
> The really dumb users is probably using a GUI tool > for either activity, that one may of course refuse > to ruin the burn.
The current GUI tools don't know anything about 2.5 power management, and in some cases don't know when the driver has done needed work or not.
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