Më Enj , 2006-09-14 at 18:26 -0400, David Zeuthen ka shkruar: > On Thu, 2006-09-14 at 14:05 +0200, Isak Savo wrote: > > I think he's talking about the fact that when you "unmount" a USB > > device in windows, the devices are often turning off their leds to > > indicate that they are now turned off. When unmounting in linux, this > > is often not the case (although the device *is* properly unmounted and > > data is flushed, so it's just a cosmetic thing.). > > Right, I've seen this too. It would be nice to turn power down the USB > device when we've unmounted / ejected it. Unfortunately run-time power > management is pretty weak in Linux but people are actually working on > it. When it lands in Linux and is generally usable, we'll export this in > HAL and it's easy to take advantage of from the desktop.
On a laptop this might make sense. On my desktop though, I might want to eject my iPod, but leave it connect and have it continue to charge, if the battery is low. -- dobey _______________________________________________ desktop-devel-list mailing list [email protected] http://mail.gnome.org/mailman/listinfo/desktop-devel-list
