On Thursday 29 April 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
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> 2010/4/28 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>:
> > On Thursday 29 April 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> >> 2010/4/28 Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl>:
> >> > On Wednesday 28 April 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> >> >> Add a misc device, "suspend_blocker", that allows user-space processes
> >> >> to block auto suspend. The device has ioctls to create a suspend_blocker,
> >> >> and to block and unblock suspend. To delete the suspend_blocker, close
> >> >> the device.
> >> >>
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>
> >> > ...
> >> >> +
> >> >> +#include <linux/fs.h>
> >> >> +#include <linux/miscdevice.h>
> >> >> +#include <linux/module.h>
> >> >> +#include <linux/uaccess.h>
> >> >> +#include <linux/slab.h>
> >> >> +#include <linux/suspend_blocker.h>
> >> >> +#include <linux/suspend_block_dev.h>
> >> >> +
> >> >> +enum {
> >> >> +     DEBUG_FAILURE   = BIT(0),
> >> >> +};
> >> >> +static int debug_mask = DEBUG_FAILURE;
> >> >
> >> > What's the exact purpose of this?
> >>
> >> To show errors returned to user space. I can turn it off by default if you want.
> >
> > Not necessarily, but why is it a mask?  It looks like a 0/1 thing would be
> > sufficient.
> 
> I may want to add a bit to print all user-space block and unblock calls.

Alternatively, you can add a new parameter for that, which I think I would prefer.

Rafael
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