Re: /sys/.../power/autosuspend format

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Am Montag, 30. August 2010, 16:42:26 schrieb Alan Stern:
> Should we continue the convention (used in the USB subsystem) that 
> negative values for suspend_delay will disable autosuspend?  I'm not 
> sure how useful that is, given that setting power/control to "on" has 
> the same effect.
> 
> Oliver, you originally argued strongly in favor of having both 
> mechanisms.  Do you still think they are both needed?

Yes. We have drivers which probably cannot cope with a delay of 0.
But you'd probably like the user to still be allowed to switch autosuspend
off for example to allow recharging battery powered devices.

Though the reason is not strong. I'd say it's better to keep both,
but not very important.

	Regards
		Oliver
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