Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

From: Oliver Neukum
Date: Wed Feb 18 2009 - 03:52:19 EST


Am Wednesday 18 February 2009 00:26:53 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > Another possibility is to set up independent runtime PM for the
> > transport and the device.  This means allowing the possibility that the
> > transport is suspended while its child (the device) is not.  This is a
> > little simpler (there's only one idle-timeout per device, since the
> > link is treated as an independent device), but it violates the
> > principle of never suspending a parent while there is an active child.
>
> Well, I think the first approach would be better.

I am afraid it wouldn't be. How do you deal with shared transports?

Regards
Oliver

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