On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 19:01 +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 18:59 +0200, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Wed 2010-05-26 18:28:28, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 11:18 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > > > > > Or make the suspend manager a C proglet and provide a JNI interface, > > > > > or whatever. > > > > > > > > It's a fairly large piece of code to try to rewrite in C, so I don't > > > > think that's feasible on a reasonable timescale. Android does have the > > > > concept of special sockets that can be used to communicate from less to > > > > more privileged processes (it has a very segmented runtime model), so > > > > these might be usable ... they have a drawback that they're essentially > > > > named pipes, so no multiplexing, but one per suspend influencing C > > > > process shouldn't be a huge burden. > > > > > > It wouldn't need to convert the whole Frameworks layer into C, just > > > enough to manage the suspend state. > > > > > > Anyway, I think there's been enough arguments against even the concept > > > of opportunistic/auto-suspend, and I for one will object with a NAK if > > > Rafael send this to Linus. > > > > It was submitted already. I tried to followup with NAK, but can't > > currently see it in the archive. You mean this one: https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2010-May/025689.html ? > It was apparently hidden on some funky list. Sending a PM pull request to the PM list doesn't really strike me as the height of obfuscation. Plus almost everyone who objected was on the cc list. > Hiding pull requests is bad enough, but hiding pull requests for > contended features is just plain wrong. I don't think it's a conspiracy ... just standard operating procedure for this subsystem. I do think cc'ing lkml is good practise (having been yelled at for not doing that in the past) but it's certainly not universal practise. James _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
