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Wakelocks and the embedded problem

Wakelocks and the embedded problem

Posted Feb 11, 2009 15:53 UTC (Wed) by knan (subscriber, #3940)
In reply to: Wakelocks and the embedded problem by Kluge
Parent article: Wakelocks and the embedded problem

"In use by some other piece of code" is the usual criteria. I.e. a driver using your added shared infrastructure, a userspace program talking to the interface added, etc.

The actual hardware being more than dreams in a simulator also helps, of course.


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Wakelocks and the embedded problem

Posted Feb 14, 2009 0:34 UTC (Sat) by giraffedata (subscriber, #1954) [Link]

I can remember various LWN articles about some proposed feature where kernel developers argued that it needed to be used out of tree and shipped with distributions for a while to prove its worthiness before joining the kernel.org major league. I believe these were major functions, though.

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