Am Donnerstag 03 Juli 2008 19:43:28 schrieb Dmitry Torokhov: > Hi Oliver, > > On Thu, Jul 03, 2008 at 05:53:16PM +0200, Oliver Neukum wrote: > > Hi, > > > > this should add runtime power management to the powermate driver. > > In order to do so the driver had to be changed to provide open & close > > methods. Please test. > > > > I was workinf on adding suspend and resume hooks to input devices to > reset them into sane state automatically. I am wondering if I should > call driver's suspend and resume only for open input devices and If you do that open() would have to redo all initialisation work probe() would do. > provide mutual exclusion with open and close. DO you think it will > help with reagrd to adding autopm support to USB devices? Mutual exclusion is a very good idea. And telling input devices that they are open is also a good idea. But this will be difficult, as open() will almost certainly wish to do as memory allocations can trigger an autoresume. Regards Oliver -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
