Hi! > <ncunningham@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > It sounds to me like all of this stuff is just power management of > > individual devices, which should be done through the sysfs interface and > > completely unrelated to /sys/power/state. > > It is easier for us to add a hook to the individual drivers than to > maintain a list of devices in user-space. Also, last time I checked, > the only way to disable individual devices was through a deprecated > interface. Is there a new way to do this? No, but we need one, sooner or later. I'd say that implementing nice device power management would be better than early-suspend hack. > > That said, if suspend to ram is what they really want for 'auto-mem', > > what you're suggesting sounds good to me. > > Suspend gives us two advantages over idle. All threads are frozen > which means that an app that is using too much cpu time no longer > drains the battery. And, the monotonic clock stops. SIGSTOP should be the right tool if some application uses too much cycles... -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
