Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 22:34:18 +0100 | | From | Alan Cox <> | | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) |
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On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:29:18 -0400 (EDT) Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> wrote:
> On Thu, 27 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:04 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > > > Does this mean you believe "echo mem >/sys/power/state" is bad and > > > should be removed? Or "echo disk >/sys/power/state"? They pay no > > > attention to latencies or other requirements. > > > > Those are a whole different beast, those are basically a quick-off > > button like thing. Forced suspend is conceptually a very different beast > > from power-saving a running system. > > They may be different conceptually. Nevertheless, Android uses forced > suspend as a form of power saving. Until better mechanisms are in > place, it makes sense.
For them, not for Linux.
Several vendors have exciting kernel drivers that do things like binary patch other modules. Until better mechanisms are in place it does *NOT* make sense to merge such stuff.
I don't care what they do in their own tree (consenting adults in their own home and all that) but what they do in the public tree is another matter.
Alan
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