* Matthew Garrett <mjg@xxxxxxxxxx> [100506 10:39]: > On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:38:08AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote: > > > If your userspace keeps polling and has runaway timers, then you > > could suspend it's parent process to idle the system? > > If your userspace is suspended, how does it process the events that > generated a system wakeup? If we had a good answer to that then suspend > blockers would be much less necessary. Well if your hardware runs off-while-idle or even just retention-while-idle, then the basic shell works just fine waking up every few seconds or so. Then you could keep init/shell/suspend policy deamon running until it's time to suspend the whole device. To cut down runaway timers, you could already freeze the desktop/GUI/whatever earlier. 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