Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 17 Feb 2009 06:56:22 -0800 | From | Arjan van de Ven <> | Subject | Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend |
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On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:51:41 +0000 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:46:30AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote: > > > actually with powertop... on the open source side things are > > actually won. It took all of 6 months... > > I don't see that as a valid excuse. In fact, if this kind of > > solution makes real userspace scheduled timers to be missed then I > > consider it a serious functionality misfeature. > > Remember that Android has an open marketplace designed to appeal to > Java programmers - users are going to end up downloading code from > there and then blaming the platform if their battery life heads > towards zero. I think "We can't trust our userland not to be dumb" is > a valid concern.
so use range timers / timer slack for those apps that you do not trust. That is not a big deal, and solves the issue of timer wakeups...
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