On Thu 2006-08-24 16:58:50, Vitaly Wool wrote: > On 8/23/06, Pavel Machek <pavel at ucw.cz> wrote: > >> > > >> >This seems to be too specific to embedded machine. > >> > > >> >If userspace wants to work with usb and play mp3s at the same time, > >> >what does it do? > >> > >> I guess it just defines an appropriate policy. You can call it > >> 'usb_mp3' if you wish ;) > >> I don't think it's too embedded-specific. > > > >Well, it leads to exponential number of policies -- not nice. Having > >usb_mp3_fileserver_webserver is not nice. > > No. The reason is there's no _real_ difference in 'fileserver' and > 'webserver' from the PM POV, so this will never happen. > There's no reason to introduce different policies for different use > cases which however imply similar peripherals utilization. > Moreover, I never play MP3s on a fileserver/webserver. The example > you've given is pretty much artificial. My notebook has 23 different devices. Do you really want to have 8388608 policies for different perihepal utilizations? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html
