On Mon, 2008-04-14 at 10:51 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > On Sun, 13 Apr 2008, David Brownell wrote: > > > I sort of agree. Looking at it from a whole-system perspective, > > suspending needs to be able to chitchat with userspace ... and I > > don't think that can be done *before* writing to /sys/power/state > > in an acceptably generic/portable way. (Briefly, applications > > need to have clean stopping points and be able to arrange system > > wakeup. They may well have more work to do than most drivers.) > > Pavel's recent work aside, the only way to initiate a system sleep is > from userspace. So it seems natural for all application notifications > to be made by the initiating program, perhaps via dbus. No. Certainly not via dbus. Ben. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
