Messages in this thread | | | From | Oliver Neukum <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2009 17:48:06 +0100 |
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Am Monday 16 February 2009 16:40:48 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > > Why shouldn't user space know the consequences of still requesting > > a service and be able to decide on that basis which services to > > request? > > That's not what I said. Userspace should not be the part that goes "oh > this is a realtek not an intel nic, so ..." > That is the drivers job.
True.
> Userspace should just be the part that says "I'm interested in link > notifications". The driver then just goes to the lowest power state for > its device that still gives those notifications.
Should there be a channel through which drivers can tell user space what the consequences in terms of reaching a sleep state are if a service is requested?
Regards Oliver
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