On Fri 2009-02-13 17:49:57, Uli Luckas wrote: > On Friday, 13. February 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > Userland ABI would then be a single /dev/inhibit_suspend, > > with the counter being bumped each time an application opens it. It'll > > automatically be dropped if the application exits without cleaning up. > > > > This seems simpler and also avoids any arguments about the naming > > scheme. What am I missing? > Opening and closing an fd sounds like a lot of overhead. Taking and releasing > locks if going to be a called with very highg frequency. I'd go for an ioctl. Ehm? And introduce nasty interface, and probably slower too since open() is time-critical and ioctl() is not? Or do you have benchmarks? Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
