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SubjectRe: [RFD] Automatic suspend
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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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