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From: David Henningsson <david.henningsson@canonical.com>
To: mengdong.lin@intel.com
Cc: tiwai@suse.de, alsa-devel@alsa-project.org
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 1/1] ALSA: hda - add a timer to find and suspend idle codecs
Date: Tue, 14 Aug 2012 12:05:15 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <502A22DB.5010503@canonical.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1344967003-5470-1-git-send-email-mengdong.lin@intel.com>

On 08/14/2012 07:56 PM, mengdong.lin@intel.com wrote:
> From: Mengdong Lin <mengdong.lin@intel.com>
>
> This patch sets up a timer to monitor changes of the parameter 'power_save'
> and suspend any idle codecs if power save is re-enabled by the user.

Adding timers means are you adding wakeups to the CPU. That seems 
counterproductive if you're trying to save power...?

Is there no way to listen to a change event of some sort instead?

-- 
David Henningsson, Canonical Ltd.
https://launchpad.net/~diwic

  reply	other threads:[~2012-08-14  9:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2012-08-14 17:56 [RFC PATCH 1/1] ALSA: hda - add a timer to find and suspend idle codecs mengdong.lin
2012-08-14 10:05 ` David Henningsson [this message]
2012-08-14 13:42   ` Lin, Mengdong
2012-08-14 10:08 ` Jaroslav Kysela
2012-08-14 13:55   ` Lin, Mengdong
2012-08-14 10:26 ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-14 14:35   ` Lin, Mengdong
2012-08-14 14:42     ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-14 15:19       ` Takashi Iwai
2012-08-14 15:20         ` [PATCH 1/2] ALSA: hda - Implement snd_hda_power_sync() helper function Takashi Iwai
2012-08-14 15:21         ` [PATCH 2/2] ALSA: hda - Check the power state when power_save option is changed Takashi Iwai
2012-08-15  4:19           ` Lin, Mengdong
2012-08-15  6:58             ` Takashi Iwai
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2012-08-14 17:44 [RFC PATCH 1/1] ALSA: hda - add a timer to find and suspend idle codecs mengdong.lin

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