On Mon, 16 Feb 2009 22:48:32 +0100 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote: > > Userland should never ever control the state of a device like this > > directly. It should do so by a) closing the device and b) setting > > latency / functional requirements. > > The user, however, may want to forcibly put a device into a low power > state without stopping all of the applications that depend on it (eg. > have it open). Do you think that we shouldn't allow users to do such > things? I would think that that is a bad mistake to do. It basically breaks the contract that the kernel has with userspace.... -- Arjan van de Ven Intel Open Source Technology Centre For development, discussion and tips for power savings, visit http://www.lesswatts.org _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
