On Sunday, 1. February 2009, Alan Stern wrote: > Early-suspend seems to be a completely different matter. In fact it > isn't a suspend state at all, as far as I understand it. It's more > like what you get simply by doing a runtime suspend on some collection > of devices. I don't see that the kernel needs to treat it as a special > state, and in might be possible to have a user program manage the whole > thing -- provided the drivers in question implement runtime power > management (as USB has done). > > Alan Stern Except you always want early-suspend and auto-suspend at the same time. The idea is, if all display of system states is off (early-suspend), we can enable or disable the cpu at will (auto-suspend) because nobody will notice. Uli -- ------- ROAD ...the handyPC Company - - - ) ) ) Uli Luckas Head of Software Development ROAD GmbH Bennigsenstr. 14 | 12159 Berlin | Germany fon: +49 (30) 230069 - 62 | fax: +49 (30) 230069 - 69 url: www.road.de Amtsgericht Charlottenburg: HRB 96688 B Managing director: Hans-Peter Constien _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
