2009/10/20 Alan Jenkins <sourcejedi.lkml@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > I guess the argument is that it's better to waste a little power, > rather than make life hard for people who install Linux themselves > :-/. After all these devices are mainly shipped with Windows, and the > original pre-installed Linux (which hacked around this in video > applications) is not seriously maintained. The problem is that when > the pre-installed OS uses the hack, the camera will be disabled in the > BIOS. When you install a generic version of Linux without hacked > applications, you either have eeepc-laptop enable the camera, or the > user has to learn how to do it themself. > > I don't have a strong opinion myself, so long as it's fixed properly > in the long term. For the short term, I guess that distributions that ship some eee-related package could make it include an udev rule - I'm going to propose this in Debian. For the long term: if having blanket-enabled autosuspend is shown to rarely raise problems, maybe a blacklist could be added in default udev rules? Luca -- 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
