On Mon, 18 Jan 2010, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > From: Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> > Subject: PM / Runtime: Add sysfs switch for disabling device run-time PM > > Add new device sysfs attribute, power/runtime, allowing the user > space to block the run-time power management of the device. If this > attribute is set to "disabled", the driver of the device won't be > able to enable run-time power management for it (without breaking the > rules). Ouch. This does nearly the same thing as the power/level attribute in the USB subsystem, but in an incompatible and more complicated way. The power/level attribute can contain either "on" or "auto", meaning that the device is always on or that it is subject to automatic runtime power management (autosuspend). Changing the setting from "auto" to "on" merely does sets a flag and does pm_runtime_get_sync(); changing it from "on" to "auto" clears the flag and does pm_runtime_put_sync(). Is there any reason this same mechanism shouldn't be used for all devices? Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
