2010/5/26 Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:25 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > >> and on systems where the >> same power state can be used from idle and suspend, we use suspend so >> we can stay in the low power state for minutes to hours instead of >> milliseconds to seconds. > > So don't you think working on making it possible for systems to be idle > _that_ long would improve things for everybody? as opposed to this > auto-suspend which only improves matters for those that (can) use it? I'm not preventing anyone from working on improving this. Currently both the kernel and our user-space code polls way too much. I don't think it is reasonable to demand that no one should run any user-space code with periodic timers when we have not even fixed the kernel to not do this. -- Arve Hjønnevåg -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
