Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 16 Feb 2009 13:53:39 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend |
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On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:48:32 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> 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?
I would think that that is a bad mistake to do. It basically breaks the contract that the kernel has with userspace....
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