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From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@crca.org.au>
Subject: Re: [RFC Disable suspend on a specific device] This is a
 little	change in linux power scheme
Date: Wed, 08 Apr 2009 08:25:10 +1000
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Hi.

On Tue, 2009-04-07 at 23:38 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Well.... userspace should not have to decide this. If userspace tells
> kernel not to suspend video card (on PC/ACPI), then we either honour
> the request, or violate ACPI spec (and probably break suspend).

What about the cases where the ACPI spec is irrelevant? (As I understand
it, not all embedded boards use ACPI). Would this be a good approach in
those cases? If so, perhaps the trick would be to make the functionality
depend on !CONFIG_ACPI?

Regards,

Nigel