On Thu, 27 May 2010 13:29:18 -0400 (EDT) Alan Stern <stern@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Thu, 27 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:04 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > > > Does this mean you believe "echo mem >/sys/power/state" is bad and > > > should be removed? Or "echo disk >/sys/power/state"? They pay no > > > attention to latencies or other requirements. > > > > Those are a whole different beast, those are basically a quick-off > > button like thing. Forced suspend is conceptually a very different beast > > from power-saving a running system. > > They may be different conceptually. Nevertheless, Android uses forced > suspend as a form of power saving. Until better mechanisms are in > place, it makes sense. For them, not for Linux. Several vendors have exciting kernel drivers that do things like binary patch other modules. Until better mechanisms are in place it does *NOT* make sense to merge such stuff. I don't care what they do in their own tree (consenting adults in their own home and all that) but what they do in the public tree is another matter. Alan _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
