powering devices (was: [PATCH] odeviced-power-off-gps-at-init.patch)

[Michael 'Mickey' Lauer]

Thanks for this patch, 

I don't think we should apply this right now though, let's think a bit more 
about how we actually want to handle the power situation wrt. peripherals.

The basic question is what policy do we want to enforce?
* All peripherals off on startup
* All peripherals on on startup
* All peripherals to the same state when we shut down the last time

The proper location for dealing with this is OUsage.

Next question is: what do we do on suspend/resume?
* Do nothing and hope the kernel will handle everything
* Save state and power off devices before suspend, power on after resume 
depending onstate

The proper location for this is ODeviced.

I think ODeviced should be the only one actually controlling power.

Input?
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