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On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:25 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:

> and on systems where the
> same power state can be used from idle and suspend, we use suspend so
> we can stay in the low power state for minutes to hours instead of
> milliseconds to seconds.

So don't you think working on making it possible for systems to be idle
_that_ long would improve things for everybody? as opposed to this
auto-suspend which only improves matters for those that (can) use it?