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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.
On Wed 2010-05-26 18:28:28, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:18 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> > > Or make the suspend manager a C proglet and provide a JNI interface,
> > > or whatever.
> >
> > It's a fairly large piece of code to try to rewrite in C, so I don't
> > think that's feasible on a reasonable timescale. Android does have the
> > concept of special sockets that can be used to communicate from less to
> > more privileged processes (it has a very segmented runtime model), so
> > these might be usable ... they have a drawback that they're essentially
> > named pipes, so no multiplexing, but one per suspend influencing C
> > process shouldn't be a huge burden.
>
> It wouldn't need to convert the whole Frameworks layer into C, just
> enough to manage the suspend state.
>
> Anyway, I think there's been enough arguments against even the concept
> of opportunistic/auto-suspend, and I for one will object with a NAK if
> Rafael send this to Linus.

It was submitted already. I tried to followup with NAK, but can't
currently see it in the archive.
Pavel
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