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    SubjectRe: [RFC] New Driver Model for 2.5
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    > If you have a acpi deamon that decides to make the machine go to sleep
    > while burning a CD, that's nothign to do with the kernel at all.

    One job kernel drivers have is to say "I can't safely sleep at this moment"
    Even windows/XP beta gets this right.

    > The kernel does not set policy. If the user says "suspend now", then we
    > suspend now. Whether a CD burn or anything else is going on is totally
    > irrelevant.

    I know what the end user viewpoint on that would be. In a sense I do
    agree with you - but that would assume we could re-invent every single
    scsi generic driver, figure out how to make /proc/sg/%d/... work and the
    like

    > But if I say "suspend", and the kernel refuses, I will kill the offending
    > piece of crap from sg.c before you can blink an eye.

    Thats fine by me. Anyone wanting to be able to burn cds safely can run a
    -ac kernel tree

    Alan
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