On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 05:47:06PM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 04:11:41PM +0100, Russell King wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 26, 2007 at 12:51:25PM +0200, Rodolfo Giometti wrote: > > > If a socket has been ejected before sleeping, at resume time it > > > shouldn't be awaked. > > > > Conversely, if a card has been inserted into an empty slot prior to > > resuming, it should be detected. Removing this check prevents that > > happening, which sucks for at least embedded devices. > > You can use "pccardctl insert" to do it. :)
Not on a battery powered device with a graphical interface. > On battery powered device I should prevent power lost, so if I power > down a device I'd like it should remain off even after resume. In which case you need to remember why it was powered down and act accordingly. > Why the system should power it on automagically? Just for detection? When you bring the battery device out of resume, and you've inserted a card, you want it to be detected. Your change means you have to wait until the system has finished resuming before you plug the card in, which practically is a pain in the butt and actually leads to user errors. IOW: "I plugged my wireless card in after I pressed the power button, why wasn't it detected?" -- Russell King Linux kernel 2.6 ARM Linux - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/ maintainer of: - 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/
