From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754636Ab0E1N3h (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 09:29:37 -0400 Received: from ksp.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.26.206]:47712 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752210Ab0E1N3g (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 09:29:36 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 15:29:25 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Tony Lindgren Cc: Matthew Garrett , Len Brown , markgross@thegnar.org, Brian Swetland , linux-doc@vger.kernel.org, Kernel development list , Jesse Barnes , Oleg Nesterov , Tejun Heo , Linux-pm mailing list , Wu Fengguang , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api. Message-ID: <20100528132925.GA2677@ucw.cz> References: <20100505202826.GB7450@linux.intel.com> <20100505234755.GI29604@atomide.com> <20100506134015.GA23426@srcf.ucam.org> <20100506170151.GA30928@atomide.com> <20100506170956.GA28104@srcf.ucam.org> <20100506171453.GC30928@atomide.com> <20100506172201.GA28578@srcf.ucam.org> <20100506173807.GD30928@atomide.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100506173807.GD30928@atomide.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > > Why would you need to constantly try to suspend in that case? > > > > Because otherwise you're awake for longer than you need to be. > > If your system is idle and your hardware supports off-while-idle, > then that really does not matter. There's not much of a difference > in power savings, we're already talking over 10 days on batteries > with just off-while-idle on omaps. Makes me wish g1 was omap based... it looks like you have superior hw. -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html