Am Monday 16 February 2009 03:20:12 schrieb Arjan van de Ven: > >or > > network or similar where the driver cannot shut the device down > > without losing the ability to detect activity (ie, switch your PHY > > off is nice but you lose the ability to monitor the link for example). > > what this needs is a separation between "interface down, all off" and > "interface down enough so that link detection works". > Some NICs can go all the way down and still do link detection, others > cannot. This is obviously something the driver will know, nothing else > in the system should know. Why shouldn't user space know the consequences of still requesting a service and be able to decide on that basis which services to request? Regards Oliver _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
