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From: "Arve Hjønnevåg" <arve@android.com>
To: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: "Randy Dunlap" <randy.dunlap@oracle.com>,
	linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	"Thadeu Lima de Souza Cascardo" <cascardo@holoscopio.com>,
	"Márton Németh" <nm127@freemail.hu>,
	"Sven Neumann" <s.neumann@raumfeld.com>,
	"Tero Saarni" <tero.saarni@gmail.com>,
	"Henrik Rydberg" <rydberg@euromail.se>,
	"Matthew Garrett" <mjg@redhat.com>,
	"Jiri Kosina" <jkosina@suse.cz>,
	linux-input@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 8/9] Input: Block suspend while event queue is not empty.
Date: Fri, 23 Apr 2010 22:02:50 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <z2wd6200be21004232202me5d59908y25bf9523fd62edce@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201004231408.15885.dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>

On Fri, Apr 23, 2010 at 2:08 PM, Dmitry Torokhov
<dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Friday 23 April 2010 01:56:25 pm Randy Dunlap wrote:
>> On Thu, 22 Apr 2010 18:08:57 -0700 Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
>> > Add an ioctl, EVIOCSSUSPENDBLOCK, to enable a suspend_blocker that will
>> > block suspend while the event queue is not empty. This allows userspace
>> > code to process input events while the device appears to be asleep.
>>
>> All new ioctls need to be added to Documentation/ioctl/ioctl-number.txt,
>> please.
>
> I do not see the reason for it to be in the kernel still. Have a process
> that listens to all input devices (or subset of them), once events stop
> coming initiate suspend.
>

I think the document added by the first patch explains this. The
solution you propose above will ignore a wakeup key pressed right
after user space decides to initiate suspend.

-- 
Arve Hjønnevåg
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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-24  5:02 UTC|newest]

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2010-04-23  1:08               ` [PATCH 8/9] Input: Block suspend while event queue is not empty Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-23 20:56                 ` Randy Dunlap
2010-04-23 21:08                   ` Dmitry Torokhov
2010-04-24  5:02                     ` Arve Hjønnevåg [this message]
2010-04-24 14:36                       ` [linux-pm] " Alan Stern
2010-04-25  2:30                         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2010-04-25 15:29                           ` Alan Stern
2010-04-25 22:41                             ` Arve Hjønnevåg
2010-04-24  4:58                   ` Arve Hjønnevåg

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