* Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> [100506 10:05]: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:01:51AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > Or are you suspending constantly, tens of times per minute even if > > there's no user activity? > > In this case you'd be repeatedly trying to suspend until the modem > driver stopped blocking it. It's pretty much a waste. But then the userspace knows you're getting data from the modem, and it can kick some inactivity timer that determines when to try to suspend next. Why would you need to constantly try to suspend in that case? Regards, Tony -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html