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

Alan Stern
2010-05-27T14:09:11Z

On Wed, 26 May 2010, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:

> >> > And even if it isn't, so what?  What's wrong with looping behavior?
> >>
> >> It is a significant power drain.
> >
> > Not in the situation I was discussing.
> >
>
> If you meant it spend most of the time suspended, then I agree. It
> only wastes power when a driver blocks suspend by returning an error
> from its suspend hook and we are forced to loop doing no useful work.

Exactly the same as the in-kernel opportunistic suspend implementation.

Alan Stern