Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 7 Jun 2009 23:10:52 -0400 (EDT) | From | Alan Stern <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default |
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On Mon, 8 Jun 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:03:48PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > There's no mechanism for this. It many environments it couldn't work, > > because the decision about whether to enable autosuspend is made when > > the device is first created (i.e., when the creation uevent is > > received), whereas driver binding doesn't occur until later. > > There's a lot of power management situations where you don't end up with > the optimal power configuration until a driver's bound. It's certainly > possible to do this in userspace, but if we know that the hardware > supported by a given driver will always work then it seems reasonable to > have it whitelist autosuspend on that device.
Sure. Such a thing could be added easily enough. It just doesn't exist now, that's all.
Alan Stern
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