Wakelocks

Posted Dec 23, 2011 11:15 UTC (Fri) by brendan_wright (guest, #7376)
In reply to: Wakelocks by neilbrown
Parent article: Bringing Android closer to the mainline

> Certainly the OS needs to know when it can suspend quickly and userspace apps need to provide that information.

> But the "kernel" doesn't need to be particularly involved in this.

I'm not fussed about how it works, just as long as we're not still arguing about either the need for them, or the implementation details, in two years time! :-/