Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

Matthew Garrett
2009-02-17T14:51:41Z

On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:46:30AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:

> actually with powertop... on the open source side things are actually
> won. It took all of 6 months...
> I don't see that as a valid excuse. In fact, if this kind of solution
> makes real userspace scheduled timers to be missed then I consider it a
> serious functionality misfeature.

Remember that Android has an open marketplace designed to appeal to Java
programmers - users are going to end up downloading code from there and
then blaming the platform if their battery life heads towards zero. I
think "We can't trust our userland not to be dumb" is a valid concern.

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