Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 5 Oct 2006 10:57:06 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: error to be returned while suspended |
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Hi!
> > (So we are talking runtime suspend?) > > Yes. Otherwise the patch would have been ready two days ago. > But if I am implenting this, I'll do a full implementation. > > > No, I do not know what the right interface is. I started to suspect > > that drivers should suspend/resume devices automatically, without > > userland help. Maybe having autosuspend_timeout in sysfs is enough. > > If you do this at kernel level, you'll screw up any demon implementing > a power policy to stay within the budget.
Well, in case of machine where "must get approval before you can use printer"... just do exactly that. Make userland ask approval of powerbudgetd before it opens /dev/lp0.
It will only be neccessary on very small machines, anyway. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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