Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] PCI: Runtime power management

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sat, Aug 15, 2009 at 11:21:53PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> I can even imagine a scenario where this setting might be useful, like when
> we don't want a network adapter to be woken up from the outside.

I think in that case we'd probably just want the interface to be downed? 
Some of this is going to require device-specific policy, I think - for 
the network case we probably want something in between IF_RUNNING and 
IF_DOWN (IF_CARRIER, perhaps) that indicates that we want the PHY to be 
powered. Pushing this out to sysfs would mean we'd have a consistent 
interface but varying semantics, and I'm not convinced that's an 
especially helpful interface.

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