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SubjectRe: Power-managing devices that are not of interest at some point in time
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On Wed, 2014-07-16 at 14:08 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
> > I am not so much concerned about userspace, but about reusing of as
> > much of existing PM framework in the drivers. Right now it is very
> > hard to correctly track dependencies between general open/close,
> > system suspend/resume, and various runtime-PM transitions. Adding
> yet
> > another PM mechanism into the mix will just add more complexity.
>
> Would it make sense to unbind the drivers for these devices when the
> lid is closed? With the drivers gone, there would naturally be no

No, because I don't want settings of my devices to disappear.
You can do that only for stateless devices. And I doubt you can
tell in general which devices are stateless.

Regards
Oliver




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