Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-02-21T09:52:09Z

On Saturday 21 February 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 21, 2009 at 12:40:48AM +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
>
> > We can't do the quirks from the kernel and that's one of the reasons why I
> > think user space should start automatic suspend (it can do the quirks if
> > necessary).
>
> Any sort of automatic suspend is simply impossible in a world where your
> drivers don't work properly. There's code for making intel and radeon
> handle suspend/resume themselves now, and nvidia before g80 should also
> be easy. More recent nvidia is going to be some work.
>
> But yeah. Let's not have "Work around broken drivers" as a design goal.

OK, I'm withdrawing it, then. :-)

> The argument against timeouts in wakelocks works just as well here.

So, what do you thing about the approach desribed earlier in this thread
(http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/2/20/182)?

Rafael