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    SubjectRe: [RFD] Automatic suspend
    On Mon, Feb 16, 2009 at 11:23:30PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:

    > Arve said that the power state was equivalent in idle and suspend, but
    > that they preferred suspend because it stopped any periodic timers. I'd
    > be more interested in making sure that unnecessary timers aren't running
    > than focusing on automatically entering system-wide suspend - Nokia have
    > been managing this since 2005 with good results.

    Definitely. Even in the embedded case there is hardware which takes a
    relatively long time to fully power down and resume without winning an
    enormous amount on the power front (analogue stuff is a common culprit
    here, it can take a noticable amount of time to bring it up cleanly).


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