On Fri, 2013-08-30 at 08:16 +0200, David Henningsson wrote: > On 08/29/2013 04:36 PM, Tanu Kaskinen wrote: > > Sometimes it would be nice to disable module-suspend-on-idle for > > specific devices. For me the use case is to keep a HDMI sink running > > all the time to avoid loss of audio when starting to play a stream to > > the device (the HDMI receiver eats a bit from the beginning of the > > stream when the device is opened). This is arguably a hacky solution > > to the problem, but on the other hand, I think it's very sensible to > > interpret negative timeout in the module-suspend-on-idle.timeout > > property as disabling the suspending altogher. This is also how the > > exit-idle-time configuration option behaves (negative value disables > > automatic exiting). > > Didn't Arun have another solution for a similar problem? Like a sink > ALWAYS_RUNNING flag or something. Yes, he did. That patch was not merged, and I don't know if Arun plans to still work on it. Regardless of Arun's solution, I think it makes sense to support negative value for the module-suspend-on-idle.timeout property to be consistent with other timeout parameters. -- Tanu
