Re: [linux-pm] suspend blockers & Android integration

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 12:00:47PM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:

> Sure, but my point was, some non-trivial (still kind of natural for a
> smartphone) activities with the device will prevent it from suspending
> for quite some time. Even worse, the suspend wakelock will keep the
> whole kernel active, as opposed to powering off unused devices
> separately as it's done in runtime PM. Yep, I know about the "early
> suspend" type of thing; yet it's excess, not mainlined and lacks
> granularity.

Holding a suspend blocker is entirely orthogonal to runtime pm. The 
"whole kernel" will not be "active" - it can continue to hit the same 
low power state in the idle loop, and any runtime pm implementation in 
the drivers will continue to be active.

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