On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:17 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > > With a single suspend manager process that manages the suspend state you > > can achieve the same goal. > > > > Yes we don't need the /dev interface, but it is useful. Without it any > program that needs to block suspend has to make a blocking ipc call > into the suspend manager process. Android already does this for java > code, but system processes written in C block suspend directly with > the kernel since they cannot use the java APIs. So provide a C interface to it as well? Surely you can have the java thing have a unix socket or something a C app can talk to. That shouldn't be hard at all. Or make the suspend manager a C proglet and provide a JNI interface, or whatever. -- 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