Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/11] Android PM extensions

Pavel Machek
2009-02-03T20:15:22Z

> > The problem is that he's talking about making changes to a kernel that
> > will be installed in all sorts of machines, from phones all the way up
> > to supercomputers. When you do this, you have to broaden your point of
> > view -- your code has to run correctly in all of these settings.
> >
> Well, it should not interfere with any of these settings. And I think it is
> understood by now that we has to take back the semantic change of "echo mem
> > /sys/power/state"
>
> On the other hand, I think it is quite reasonable to have aditional suspend
> mechanisms on a phone then you have on a super computer. Obviously you don't
> want the supercomputer to suspend everytime nobody is watching :-)

Actually you'd like your supercomputer to turn on wake-on-lan then
sleep when noone is watching (and there are no pending jobs). 'green
datacenter' is popular buzzword ;-).

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