Requesting Power State Changes
So far we have looked at how a driver responds to requests from the system to change its power state in response to events such as the system being put into the sleep state. However, there are times when a driver may wish to initiate a change in the power state of its device independent of the overall power state of the system. For example, an LCD monitor may dim its backlight after a few minutes of inactivity, or a disk may spin down if it hasn't been accessed for some time.
A driver should use the I/O Kit's power management API even for power state changes that affect only the device that it is controlling. Doing so will not only ensure that any change of power state that is initiated by the driver is synchronized ...
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