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    SubjectRe: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.
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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.

    ~Vitaly
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