> If you have a acpi deamon that decides to make the machine go to sleep
> while burning a CD, that's nothign to do with the kernel at all.
One job kernel drivers have is to say "I can't safely sleep at this moment"
Even windows/XP beta gets this right.
> The kernel does not set policy. If the user says "suspend now", then we
> suspend now. Whether a CD burn or anything else is going on is totally
> irrelevant.
I know what the end user viewpoint on that would be. In a sense I do
agree with you - but that would assume we could re-invent every single
scsi generic driver, figure out how to make /proc/sg/%d/... work and the
like
> But if I say "suspend", and the kernel refuses, I will kill the offending
> piece of crap from sg.c before you can blink an eye.
Thats fine by me. Anyone wanting to be able to burn cds safely can run a
-ac kernel tree
Alan
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