On Saturday 15 August 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:21:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > I can even imagine a scenario where this setting might be useful, like when > > we don't want a network adapter to be woken up from the outside. > > I think in that case we'd probably just want the interface to be downed? > Some of this is going to require device-specific policy, I think - for > the network case we probably want something in between IF_RUNNING and > IF_DOWN (IF_CARRIER, perhaps) that indicates that we want the PHY to be > powered. Pushing this out to sysfs would mean we'd have a consistent > interface but varying semantics, and I'm not convinced that's an > especially helpful interface. I'm not disagreeing with that. At this point I'd like to know the Alan's opinion. I would gladly use the 'runtime_forbidden' flag only, but if we overlook something now, it's going to be difficult to fix later. Thanks, Rafael -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-usb" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
