[UPSTREAM - RFC] pm_bt_use_regulator_api.patch

[Mark Brown]

On Wed, Oct 08, 2008 at 05:42:06PM -0200, Werner Almesberger wrote:

> Do you know if there are any plans regarding generally having more
> fine-grained control over device suspend state through sysfs ?

Not as such...

> I guess the main problem would be the respective users of a device,
> which we don't have to care about in the current global-only
> suspend/resume architecture, since they get suspended along with
> the rest.

...the trend seems to be more for automatic usage-based power saving so
that when system components become idle they automatically get pushed
into a lower power state.  The user control that gets done is normally a
knob to disable the power saving rather than a way of requesting it.