Re: [PATCH] implement pm_ops.valid for everybody

David Brownell
2007-03-23T16:15:10Z

On Thursday 22 March 2007 11:46 pm, Guennadi Liakhovetski wrote:
> On Thu, 22 Mar 2007, David Brownell wrote:
>
> > So the fundamental definition needs to be in relative terms,
> > because platform-specific differences otherwise make trouble.
>
> What if we define system-wide and per device power states in terms of
> time? Time needed for the system / device to become fully operational
> again? And you'd need a user-space calibration daemon...

So if you take two otherwise identical systems and clock one slower
than the other, then "standby" may become "suspend-to-RAM"?

Yuck. No. Speed is only a factor in that STR is likely slower.

- Dave