From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Alan Stern Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] PM: Avoid losing wakeup events during suspend Date: Mon, 21 Jun 2010 12:01:09 -0400 (EDT) Message-ID: References: <20100621061345.GF9735@gvim.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20100621061345.GF9735@gvim.org> 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: markgross@thegnar.org Cc: mark gross <640e9920@gmail.com>, Neil Brown , Dmitry Torokhov , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux-pm mailing list List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org On Sun, 20 Jun 2010, mark gross wrote: > Your confused about what problem this patch attempts to solve. I don't think so. Rafael's description was pretty clear. > There is > a pm_qos patch in the works to address the suspend blocker > functionality. > http://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2010-June/026760.html No. That patch addresses something _similar_ to the suspend blocker functionality. The fact remains, though, that pm_qos is not used during system suspend (the /sys/power/state interface), hence changes to pm_qos won't solve the system-suspend problems that suspend blockers do solve. Alan Stern