* Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> [100506 10:17]: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:14:53AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > Why would you need to constantly try to suspend in that case? > > Because otherwise you're awake for longer than you need to be. If your system is idle and your hardware supports off-while-idle, then that really does not matter. There's not much of a difference in power savings, we're already talking over 10 days on batteries with just off-while-idle on omaps. If your userspace keeps polling and has runaway timers, then you could suspend it's parent process to idle the system? 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