Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Wed, 26 May 2010 03:30:17 -0700 | | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support. | | From | Arve Hjønnevåg <> |
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2010/5/26 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:17 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: >> > With a single suspend manager process that manages the suspend state you >> > can achieve the same goal. >> > >> >> Yes we don't need the /dev interface, but it is useful. Without it any >> program that needs to block suspend has to make a blocking ipc call >> into the suspend manager process. Android already does this for java >> code, but system processes written in C block suspend directly with >> the kernel since they cannot use the java APIs. > > So provide a C interface to it as well? >
We could, but the result would be that any program that needs to block suspend has to be android specific.
> Surely you can have the java thing have a unix socket or something a C > app can talk to. That shouldn't be hard at all. > > Or make the suspend manager a C proglet and provide a JNI interface, or > whatever. >
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