Re: [PATCH 02/13] PM: Add early suspend api.

Pavel Machek
2009-02-08T20:59:52Z

Hi!

> > My understanding of the 'early suspend' idea is that it is a mechanism allowing
> > us to place some devices selectively into low power states before the actual
> > suspend happens. However, this is exactly the same as runtime power
> > management on demand, with an interface allowing user space to put devices into
> > low power states.
>
> The main point is to have a single entrypoint from user-space. We do
> not have a list of devices to suspend in user-space.

I guess "single entrypoint" is not worth all the effort. ... plus,
different machines will likely need different "single entrypoints".

Can we get working "runtime suspend", instead?
Pavel

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