On Wed, 22 Sep 2004, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> So you are saying that whoever suspends a device the system needs
> is screwed?

Not necessarily.  But the alternative involves rewriting drivers to make 
them automatically wake up their device when it is needed.

>  That is harsh, but certainly a workable approach.  But then
> suspending devices must be left to root. Is that acceptable?

Should suspending a device be treated very differently from writing to it?  
The normal permissions mechanism, applied to sysfs, ought to take care of 
this.

Alan Stern



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