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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)
Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 20:02:13 +0200
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On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:57 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:52:59PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> 
> > Shall we henceforth stop confusing forced suspend for laptops and
> > powersaving a running system?
> 
> If you want to support forced suspend for laptops and you want to avoid 
> the risk of losing wakeups then you need in-kernel suspend blockers. 
> That's entirely orthogonal to Android's runtime power management.

The simple fact of life is, on PC style hardware suspend is mostly about
missing events. I really _really_ want to miss mouse movement of my
bluetooth mouse when the gear is stowed in my backpack.

Its perfectly OK to miss events on _forced_ suspend.