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Wakelocks and the embedded problem

Wakelocks and the embedded problem

Posted Mar 26, 2012 17:07 UTC (Mon) by bgat (subscriber, #20709)
In reply to: Wakelocks and the embedded problem by dlang
Parent article: Wakelocks and the embedded problem

I think that runtime-pm is very, very close to being a complete replacement for wakelocks. At least for platforms with drivers that fully support it.

The nice thing about runtime-pm is that it is fully aware of the kernel's Device Model, and can therefore make better decisions about system state than wakelocks can. The downside is that it looks nothing like existing wakelocks, so it requires movement from Android.


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