From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932288AbWGXWZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:25:44 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932286AbWGXWZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:25:44 -0400 Received: from pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.125]:10930 "HELO pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S932288AbWGXWZo (ORCPT ); Mon, 24 Jul 2006 18:25:44 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham To: David Brownell Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.18-rc1-git] rtc-acpi, with wakeup support Date: Tue, 25 Jul 2006 08:25:38 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.3 Cc: Linux Kernel list , Alessandro Zummo , len.brown@intel.com References: <200607151240.51192.david-b@pacbell.net> <200607241244.36574.david-b@pacbell.net> In-Reply-To: <200607241244.36574.david-b@pacbell.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1570006.PExKOsAZMk"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200607250825.42928.ncunningham@linuxmail.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1570006.PExKOsAZMk Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi David. On Tuesday 25 July 2006 05:44, David Brownell wrote: > Hmm, so -- any comments? This applies just fine to RC2 of course > (it came out minutes before RC2 "shipped"). Seems to me this would > be appropriate for the next MM release. Didn't notice it before now. I'll forward your message to suspend2-devel (w= e=20 have people there who might be interested), and try it myself. > Also, given some mechanism to tell whether this alarm woke the system, > this would seem to be the kind of infrastructure needed to make the > "deepening suspend" work correctly. That is, idle system enters the > light weight "standby" powersave mode, then if it stays idle for long > enough for the timer to wake it could enter suspend-to-RAM (or that > new "suspend-to-both" mode). There's certainly enough idle time on > most laptops for such mechanisms to help save significant amounts of > battery power, and it's best if such things don't explicitly depend > on features like ACPI. Yes. I'll look at it with a view to seeing if we can use it in Suspend2. I = get=20 requests for it from time to time, and it would be good to finally be able = to=20 do it. Regards, Nigel =2D-=20 Nigel, Michelle and Alisdair Cunningham 5 Mitchell Street Cobden 3266 Victoria, Australia --nextPart1570006.PExKOsAZMk Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.2.2 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBExUjmN0y+n1M3mo0RAt9cAKCtS5VAtntakv5r5LhDN5m4iZWgIwCfcLsn D5xP52mAuTIeFKkeNeT6vbI= =flRa -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1570006.PExKOsAZMk--