Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 13:58:34 +0000 | From | Mark Brown <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend |
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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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