On Sun, 8 Oct 2006, Oliver Neukum wrote: > I've never said that autosuspend is a bad idea. For many devices it is > simple and painless. But it is insufficient. Therefore I think removing > the ability to explicitely request a suspension from user space is wrong.
I tend to agree. And I expect we _will_ end up with a userspace interface for suspending some devices. Other devices, like USB hubs, have no need of such an interface (other than for testing, perhaps). The reason for removing the current interface is just that it is so bad. Look how confused you were when you saw it recently. Values are 0, 2, and 3, 3 automatically gets changed to 2,... There isn't even any way for a driver to tell whether a suspend message is a runtime request from userspace or a system sleep transition notification! > If so many people cannot come up with a good design, doesn't that indicate > there's no single method that satisfies all needs? Probably. That's why I've been saying all along that these things need to be decided by the individual drivers. No single design will be appropriate for all of them. Alan Stern ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys -- and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ linux-usb-devel@lists.sourceforge.net To unsubscribe, use the last form field at: https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/linux-usb-devel
