Re: [PATCH] eeepc-laptop: enable camera by default

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Jun 07, 2009 at 11:03:48PM -0400, Alan Stern wrote:

> There's no mechanism for this.  It many environments it couldn't work,
> because the decision about whether to enable autosuspend is made when
> the device is first created (i.e., when the creation uevent is
> received), whereas driver binding doesn't occur until later.

There's a lot of power management situations where you don't end up with 
the optimal power configuration until a driver's bound. It's certainly 
possible to do this in userspace, but if we know that the hardware 
supported by a given driver will always work then it seems reasonable to 
have it whitelist autosuspend on that device.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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