Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

From: Peter Zijlstra
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 13:14:10 EST


On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:04 -0400, Alan Stern wrote:
>
> Does this mean you believe "echo mem >/sys/power/state" is bad and
> should be removed? Or "echo disk >/sys/power/state"? They pay no
> attention to latencies or other requirements.

Those are a whole different beast, those are basically a quick-off
button like thing. Forced suspend is conceptually a very different beast
from power-saving a running system.


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