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

[Uli Luckas <u.luckas@road.de>]

On Monday, 2. February 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Sun 2009-02-01 00:20:04, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Saturday 31 January 2009, Arve Hj?nnev?g wrote:
> > > On Sat, Jan 31, 2009 at 7:41 AM, Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu> 
wrote:
> > > > On Fri, 30 Jan 2009, Brian Swetland wrote:
> > > >> Imagine the computer in question is a cellphone which is going to
> > > >> need to wake up when a call comes in to do traditional cellphone
> > > >> things, like ring, bring up the incall UI (so the user can
> > > >> answer/cancel), etc.
> > > >
> > > > Yes.  So what?  Nothing I said prevents the computer from waking up
> > > > when a call comes in.  What I said was that when the user tells the
> > > > computer to suspend (e.g., by writing "mem" to /sys/power/state), the
> > > > computer should suspend even if some wakelocks are still locked.
> > >
> > > But this could prevent the phone from ringing. What if the user-space
> > > code that is responsible for playing the ringtone has been notified
> > > that a call is coming in and starts reading the audio file with the
> > > ringtone. At the same, the user, unaware that someone is calling,
> > > presses the power button. If we ignore the wakelock in this situation,
> > > the phone will not ring.
>
> Yes, you don't want to write "mem" to /sys/power/state on android. You
> want to write something like "auto-mem" there.
>
ACK.
Don't change the way "mem" works. Just don't use it if it does the wrong thing 
on android.

Uli


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