On Wed, 26 May 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > > I must be missing something. In Arve's patch 1/8, if the system is in > > opportunistic suspend, and a wakeup event occurs but no suspend > > blockers get enabled by the handler, what causes the system to go back > > into suspend after the event is handled? Isn't that a loop of some > > sort? > > > > Yes it is a loop. I think what you are missing is that it only loops > repeatedly if the driver that aborts suspend does not use a suspend > blocker. You mean "the driver that handles the wakeup event". I was asking what happened if suspend succeeded and then a wakeup occurred. But yes, if a suspend blocker is used then its release causes another suspend attempt, with no looping. > > And even if it isn't, so what? What's wrong with looping behavior? > > It is a significant power drain. Not in the situation I was discussing. Alan Stern -- 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