On Mon, Jul 23, 2012 at 02:27:26PM +0530, Arun Raghavan wrote: > While discussion on how we should deal with hardware with different > requirements from standard desktop cases continues, I'd like to solve the > problem of having modem PCMs that we don't want to auto-suspend in the near > future. For this, I've attached a couple of patches that allow a sink or source > to be flagged as "always running" which would cause suspend to be avoided if > possible. > Any objections? If this is for fake streams held open by userspace we have a better in kernel solution now - just hide the PCM from userspace entirely and start it like anything else in the device. Will that not suffice?