Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend | From | Peter Zijlstra <> | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:52:57 +0100 |
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On Mon, 2009-02-16 at 22:48 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Userland should never ever control the state of a device like this > > directly. It should do so by a) closing the device and b) setting > > latency / functional requirements. > > The user, however, may want to forcibly put a device into a low power state > without stopping all of the applications that depend on it (eg. have it open). > Do you think that we shouldn't allow users to do such things?
Sounds like a recipe for disaster.
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