powerd-dbus network extension

[Daniel Drake]

On Thu, Aug 4, 2011 at 9:20 PM, Paul Fox <pgf at laptop.org> wrote:
> as john suggested in another message, this is yet another
> application-specific "protocol" being implemented in powerd, as
> a heuristic to keep the user happy.  while i have no problem
> adding it (what's one more? :-), we should certainly be tracking the
> ongoing kernel work which might support all our suspend inhibitors in
> a more cohesive way.

Agreed. And we're taking a 2-pronged approach to this, with the
short-term fix as described in this thread, and our upstreaming work
which is a stepping stone towards the long-term fix.

I'll start work on the implementation, thanks for your comments!

Daniel