Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend
[Posted February 18, 2009 by corbet]
| From: |
| Matthew Garrett <mjg59-AT-srcf.ucam.org> |
| To: |
| Arjan van de Ven <arjan-AT-infradead.org> |
| Subject: |
| Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend |
| Date: |
| Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:51:41 +0000 |
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| <20090217145141.GA26158@srcf.ucam.org> |
| Cc: |
| Brian Swetland <swetland-AT-google.com>,
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw-AT-sisk.pl>,
"Woodruff, Richard" <r-woodruff2-AT-ti.com>,
Alan Stern <stern-AT-rowland.harvard.edu>,
Kyle Moffett <kyle-AT-moffetthome.net>,
Oliver Neukum <oliver-AT-neukum.org>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh-AT-kernel.crashing.org>,
pm list <linux-pm-AT-lists.linux-foundation.org>,
LKML <linux-kernel-AT-vger.kernel.org>,
Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= <arve-AT-android.com>,
Pavel Machek <pavel-AT-ucw.cz>,
Nigel Cunningham <nigel-AT-nigel.suspend2.net>,
mark gross <mgross-AT-linux.intel.com>,
Uli Luckas <u.luckas-AT-road.de>,
Igor Stoppa <igor.stoppa-AT-nokia.com>,
Len Brown <lenb-AT-kernel.org> |
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On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:46:30AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> actually with powertop... on the open source side things are actually
> won. It took all of 6 months...
> I don't see that as a valid excuse. In fact, if this kind of solution
> makes real userspace scheduled timers to be missed then I consider it a
> serious functionality misfeature.
Remember that Android has an open marketplace designed to appeal to Java
programmers - users are going to end up downloading code from there and
then blaming the platform if their battery life heads towards zero. I
think "We can't trust our userland not to be dumb" is a valid concern.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
