On Wed, 2009-04-08 at 13:53 +0200, ext Mark Brown wrote: > On Tue, Apr 07, 2009 at 11:40:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > IMO, there is a danger that suspend will break or even the machine will crash > > if this is used for a wrong device. I don't think it's generally safe to add > > switches like this on the core level, because the core doesn't really know > > which drivers are prepared for it. > > OTOH it would be good to have a standard way of exposing this behaviour > to user space when it can be supported so that applications have some > degree of abstraction when working with these systems and drivers don't > have to keep on cooking up their own methods of exposing it. Don't rely on this method and instead implement automatic power saving when entering runtime idle. -- Cheers, Igor --- Igor Stoppa Maemo Software - Nokia Devices R&D - Helsinki _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
