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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
Subject: Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
Date: Sat, 21 Feb 2009 10:52:09 +0100
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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