On Mon, Jun 08, 2009 at 05:06:03PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > But if you think that tracking the usage state of the hardware is > 'complexity', then you very much dont know what you are talking > about. The main task of the kernel is to track hardware usage and to > abstract away the fact that the same hardware is used by multiple > tasks, and to do it safely. It's what the kernel does all day. What I'm saying is that you don't *know* what the usage state of the hardware is, and in many cases you can't know. A given user may be happy to sacrifice their SATA hotplug support. Another with identical hardware may not. A given network application may be mission critical and intolerant of the network interface being shut down. The same application in a different context may not. We'd need to provide a bewildering array of interfaces to distinguish between these situations, and we'd be unable to turn on autosuspend until the entirity of userspace had been ported to them. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx -- 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
