[PATCH powerd] Inhibit suspend while audio device is open

[Sascha Silbe]

Audio playback and recording can be efficient enough not to trigger the CPU
threshold, but we still don't want to suspend because it would interrupt the
playback resp. recording.

While there's a number of Activities (and probably Gnome applications as well)
that don't close the audio device when they're done using audio, thus
inhibiting suspend for longer than necessary, that's a problem on its own
as it will also prevent other Activities from using the audio device.

There are many other ways of Activities misbehaving and consuming a lot of
resources. The increased battery drain by inhibiting suspend is easy enough
for users to observe by watching the power LED.

Signed-off-by: Sascha Silbe <silbe at activitycentral.com>
---
 powerd |   14 ++++++--------
 1 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/powerd b/powerd
index c6d9487..09f9153 100755
--- a/powerd
+++ b/powerd
@@ -1199,13 +1199,10 @@ cpu_or_network_busy()
 }
 
 
-# unused for now, because too many sound apps leave the
-# device open:  the TamTams, Record (after playing), Browse
-# and Firefox (after playing)
-#audio_busy()
-#{
-#    grep -q RUNNING /proc/asound/card0/pcm0?/sub0/status && trace audio busy
-#}
+audio_busy()
+{
+    grep -q RUNNING /proc/asound/card0/pcm0?/sub0/status && trace audio busy
+}
 
 
 # see if there's been activity during the recent idle period --
@@ -1330,7 +1327,8 @@ general_inhibit()
 
 laptop_busy()
 {
-    general_inhibit || usb_inhibit || ttyusb_inhibit || cpu_or_network_busy
+    general_inhibit || usb_inhibit || ttyusb_inhibit || cpu_or_network_busy \
+    || audio_busy
 }
 
 if [ -e $TPAD_RECAL ]
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