From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Luca Niccoli Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] eeepc-laptop: don't enable camera at startup if it's already on. Date: Tue, 20 Oct 2009 16:31:34 +0200 Message-ID: <4e9568870910200731u3fddd1c8q86e1c6cb64d32872@mail.gmail.com> References: <1255724567-25597-1-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1255724567-25597-2-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <1255724567-25597-3-git-send-email-corentincj@iksaif.net> <20091020083555.GG19095@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain> <9b2b86520910200204n2089bcf1h2535e56d2ec4156e@mail.gmail.com> <20091020092402.GI19095@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain> <9b2b86520910200238u66af0d34v99931cf86507d5ff@mail.gmail.com> <20091020094143.GJ19095@wrars-comp.wrarsdomain> <9b2b86520910200719l34e96c88y739c14f0b9f339be@mail.gmail.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: Received: from mail-fx0-f218.google.com ([209.85.220.218]:48129 "EHLO mail-fx0-f218.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751934AbZJTObu convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Tue, 20 Oct 2009 10:31:50 -0400 Received: by fxm18 with SMTP id 18so6491180fxm.37 for ; Tue, 20 Oct 2009 07:31:54 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <9b2b86520910200719l34e96c88y739c14f0b9f339be@mail.gmail.com> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Jenkins Cc: Andrey Rahmatullin , Corentin Chary , lenb@kernel.org, linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, Len Brown , Matthew Garrett , Andrew Morton 2009/10/20 Alan Jenkins : > I guess the argument is that it's better to waste a little power, > rather than make life hard for people who install Linux themselves > :-/. =A0After all these devices are mainly shipped with Windows, and = the > original pre-installed Linux (which hacked around this in video > applications) is not seriously maintained. =A0The problem is that whe= n > the pre-installed OS uses the hack, the camera will be disabled in th= e > BIOS. =A0When you install a generic version of Linux without hacked > applications, you either have eeepc-laptop enable the camera, or the > user has to learn how to do it themself. > > I don't have a strong opinion myself, so long as it's fixed properly > in the long term. =46or the short term, I guess that distributions that ship some eee-related package could make it include an udev rule - I'm going to propose this in Debian. =46or the long term: if having blanket-enabled autosuspend is shown to rarely raise problems, maybe a blacklist could be added in default udev rules? Luca -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" i= n the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html