On Sun, 2007-02-11 at 01:27 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > On Sunday, 11 February 2007 00:45, Tilman Schmidt wrote: > > Am 10.02.2007 23:37 schrieb Nigel Cunningham: > > > If your device requires power management, and you know it requires power > > > management, why not just implement power management? Doing -ENOSYS > > > instead is like saying -ESPAMMEBECAUSEIMLAZY. > > > > Like it or not, power management is far from trivial, and people > > writing device drivers have limited resources. Calling them lazy > > does not help that in the least. If you try to put pressure on them > > by refusing to merge their work as long as it doesn't provide this > > or that functionality, you *may* end up with a few drivers having > > that functionality which otherwise wouldn't, but you *will* also > > end up with a number of drivers never making it into the kernel > > because their authors just have to give up. > > > > Also, in your argument you neglected a few cases: > > - What if my device does not require power management? > > - What if I don't know whether my device requires power management? > > - What if I know my device would require power management, but don't > > know how to implement it? > > Plus: > - What if I'm planning to implement the power managemet, but not just right > now?
Why not right now? Regards, Nigel - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
