Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 19:17:58 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) |
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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:06:38PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:59 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:56:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:52 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > > > > If that's what you're aiming for then you don't need to block > > > > applications on hardware access because they should all already have > > > > idled themselves. > > > > > > Correct, a well behaved app would have. I thought we all agreed that > > > well behaved apps weren't the problem? > > > > Ok. So the existing badly-behaved application ignores your request and > > then gets blocked. And now it no longer responds to wakeup events. > > It will, when it gets unblocked from whatever thing it got stuck on.
It's blocked on the screen being turned off. It's supposed to be reading a network packet. How does it ever get to reading the network packet?
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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