From: Florian Westphal <fw@strlen.de>
To: Manoj Basapathi <manojbm@codeaurora.org>
Cc: netfilter-devel@vger.kernel.org, subashab@quicinc.com,
sharathv@qti.qualcomm.com, ssaha@qti.qualcomm.com,
vidulak@qti.qualcomm.com, bryanh@quicinc.com,
jovanar@qti.qualcomm.com, manojbm@qti.qualcomm.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: Add snapshot of hardidletimer target
Date: Tue, 12 Nov 2019 12:14:24 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20191112111424.GE19558@breakpoint.cc> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20191111065617.GA29048@manojbm-linux.ap.qualcomm.com>
Manoj Basapathi <manojbm@codeaurora.org> wrote:
> When the timer expires, the target module sends a sysfs notification
> to the userspace, which can then decide what to do (eg. disconnect to
> save power)
>
> Compared to xt_IDLETIMER, xt_HARDIDLETIMER can send notifications when
> CPU is in suspend too, to notify the timer expiry.
Would it make sense to add this feature to IDLETIMER instead of a new
module? AFAICS there is a lot of boilerplate overlap between those two.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2019-11-12 11:14 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2019-11-11 6:56 [PATCH] netfilter: xtables: Add snapshot of hardidletimer target Manoj Basapathi
2019-11-12 11:02 ` Arturo Borrero Gonzalez
2019-11-12 11:14 ` Florian Westphal [this message]
2019-11-12 18:44 ` manojbm
2019-11-12 18:53 ` manojbm
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