Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.

Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-26T10:21:15Z

On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:17 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> > With a single suspend manager process that manages the suspend state you
> > can achieve the same goal.
> >
>
> Yes we don't need the /dev interface, but it is useful. Without it any
> program that needs to block suspend has to make a blocking ipc call
> into the suspend manager process. Android already does this for java
> code, but system processes written in C block suspend directly with
> the kernel since they cannot use the java APIs.

So provide a C interface to it as well?

Surely you can have the java thing have a unix socket or something a C
app can talk to. That shouldn't be hard at all.

Or make the suspend manager a C proglet and provide a JNI interface, or
whatever.