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Date: Tue, 11 May 2010 17:14:48 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com>
To: Tony Lindgren <tony@atomide.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)
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On Tue, May 11, 2010 at 09:12:28AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:

> To me it sounds like this should only be allowed to happen when you do:
> 
> # echo 1 > /sys/power/suspend_while_idle
> 
> As it kills the timers and leads to non-standard behaviour of the apps
> as they won't run :)
> 
> And then the remaining question is how to make sure the use cases
> below can be handled in a clean way.

That's handled by the /sys/power/policy opportunistic/forced switch.

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