Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

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Am Monday 16 February 2009 16:40:48 schrieb Arjan van de Ven:
> > 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?
> 
> That's not what I said. Userspace should not be the part that goes "oh
> this is a realtek not an intel nic, so ..."
> That is the drivers job.

True.

> Userspace should just be the part that says "I'm interested in link
> notifications". The driver then just goes to the lowest power state for
> its device that still gives those notifications.

Should there be a channel through which drivers can tell user space
what the consequences in terms of reaching a sleep state are if a service
is requested?

	Regards
		Oliver
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