Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 16:33:59 +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 17:09:16 +0200 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 11:06 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > Opportunistic suspends are okay. > > > > The proposed userspace API is too Android-specific. > > I would argue opportunistic suspends are not ok, and therefore the > proposed API is utterly irrelevant.
Assuming you are happy that opportunistically entering C6 and the like is ok via ACPI can you explain why you have a problem with opportunistic suspend and why it is different to a very deep sleep CPU state such as we have now (and which on many embedded platforms we deal with *is* sleeping external devices too)
Alan
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