Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-02-20T10:46:55Z

On Thursday 19 February 2009, Oliver Neukum wrote:
> Am Donnerstag 19 Februar 2009 23:21:46 schrieb Rafael J. Wysocki:
> > > That's the whole point behind userspace wakelocks! They provide a
> > > mechanism for userspace to tell the kernel when (as far as userspace
> is
> > > concerned) it is or is not okay to auto-sleep.
> >
> > Still, one can go further and observe that the user space can in fact start
> > automatic suspend by itself whenever it knows it's appropriate ...
>
> User space initiating this is a race condition.

Do you mean a race with the other user space processes or with the kernel?

Rafael