Date: Mon, 06 Oct 2003 12:06:52 -0600 (MDT) From: "M. Warner Losh" <imp@bsdimp.com> To: jhb@FreeBSD.org Cc: perforce@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: PERFORCE change 39117 for review Message-ID: <20031006.120652.105171364.imp@bsdimp.com> In-Reply-To: <XFMail.20031006111405.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <200310032259.h93Mxdn5018279@repoman.freebsd.org> <XFMail.20031006111405.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> writes:
: All the world is not a pccard bridge. :) The example I am thinking of
: is that maybe I want to turn off my soundcard but still have the logical
: device hang around and allow, e.g., kde to open it and attach to it when
: logging in, and then turn my soundcard back on when I want to play some
: MP3s w/o having to restart KDE for it to open the soundcard. What we
: would want to do in that case probably is have a way to ask the device
: if it is ok to just suspend/resume it for a power down and have the
: default method be to use detach/attach() unless the device says it is ok
: to use suspend/resume.
I see what you are saying here. That makes sense. We can already do
that for devices that actually support suspend/resume, but the glue
going down needs to be written. One problem is that I'd seen the
'open' as the way to mark something busy and 'close' as not-busy.
with sound cards, however, this isn't the case since playing/not
playing is independent of that.
Warner
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