linux-kernel - Re: [linux-usb-devel] error to be returned while suspended

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Date:	Sun, 8 Oct 2006 15:24:09 +0200
From:	Oliver Neukum <oliver@...kum.org>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	linux-usb-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [linux-usb-devel] error to be returned while suspended

Am Sonntag, 8. Oktober 2006 02:03 schrieb David Brownell:
> > The power management functions without 
> > timeout are also exported. For other power control features like
> > cpu frequency considerable effort has been made to export them to
> > user space.
> 
> Yes, and many of us use the much lighter weight kernel based control
> models by preference.   Why waste hundreds of Kbytes of userspace for
> a daemon when a few hundred bytes of kernel code can implement a
> better and more reactive kernel policy for cpufreq?

That's an important aspect. How about implementing autosuspend
first and keeping the sysfs-based suspension for now? If autosuspend
is done, we have something to compare too. If a different solution
emerges to be advantagous under some conditions we can talk about
the interface later.

	Regards
		Oliver
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