Hi,
On Saturday 05 March 2005 10:37, Alan Stern wrote:
> A common problem facing all drivers that do auto suspend is how to set
> the inactivity timeout. Two possible answers are: add an attribute
> file in the /sys/.../power directory (so different devices can have
> different timeouts), or add a driver module parameter (so all devices
> using the same driver will have the same timeout). The module
> parameter approach is more efficient, but it suffers from the drawback
> that a driver is not notified when a parameter is changed!
This is entirely up to driver implementation to override param_get_xxxx
and param_set_xxx functions to perform any required additional actions
and not rely on default param_{get|set}_xxx implementations.
--
Dmitry
