From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH 00/11] Android PM extensions Date: Tue, 3 Feb 2009 20:15:22 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <19700101001327.GA1239__1826.06496750868$1233692202$gmane$org@ucw.cz> References: <200902021715.43233.u.luckas@road.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Date: Thu, 1 Jan 1970 01:13:28 +0100 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200902021715.43233.u.luckas@road.de> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Uli Luckas Cc: swetland@google.com, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Nigel Cunningham List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org > > The problem is that he's talking about making changes to a kernel that > > will be installed in all sorts of machines, from phones all the way up > > to supercomputers. When you do this, you have to broaden your point of > > view -- your code has to run correctly in all of these settings. > > > Well, it should not interfere with any of these settings. And I think it is > understood by now that we has to take back the semantic change of "echo mem > > /sys/power/state" > > On the other hand, I think it is quite reasonable to have aditional suspend > mechanisms on a phone then you have on a super computer. Obviously you don't > want the supercomputer to suspend everytime nobody is watching :-) Actually you'd like your supercomputer to turn on wake-on-lan then sleep when noone is watching (and there are no pending jobs). 'green datacenter' is popular buzzword ;-). -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html