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

[Alan Stern]

On Thu, 27 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote:

> 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.

They may be different conceptually.  Nevertheless, Android uses forced 
suspend as a form of power saving.  Until better mechanisms are in 
place, it makes sense.

Alan Stern

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