On Mon, 2004-11-01 at 16:33 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > It might be a good idea to add a generic PM state for devices that are in > > a low-performance mode but will automatically transfer (or be transferred) > > back to full-performance when the next request arrives. > > > > This came up in working on auto-suspend for the usb-storage driver. When > > a drive is auto-suspended we definitely do _not_ want to put all the > > descendant devices into a low-power state first. That would defeat > > the > > Is not this auto-suspend prety much "powered on" state from the view > of upper layers? It looks to me like upper layers do not need to know > about this one.. It is, and we don't plan to "hold" a state anyway... Ben.
