Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 26 May 2010 13:16:18 +0200 | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support. | From | Vitaly Wool <> |
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2010/5/26 Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com>: > 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.
Just a suspicion, but... The things you're saying don't make sense to me other than if you're fighting with GPL in userspace here.
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