Re: [linux-pm] Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread,take three

[Igor Stoppa]

Hi,
On Mon, 2010-08-16 at 23:11 +0200, ext Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Saturday, August 14, 2010, James Bottomley wrote:

<snip>

> > > The question, then, is whether a solution which addresses the only
> > > part of the problem which Rafael is interested in dealing with at this
> > > point, is sufficient such that (a) the kernel-level opportunistic
> > > suspend can be done as an out-of-tree patch, while simultaneously (b)
> > > allowing device drivers for Android devices can utilize Rafael's
> > > interfaces to solve the race design bug currently found in our suspend
> > > subsystem, while (c) requiring minimal changes to the Android
> > > userspace, and (d) providing all of the statistics and debugging
> > > functionality required by the Android userspace.
> > > 
> > > If we can engineer a solution which meets (a), (b), (c), and (d)
> > > above, then everyone will be happy.
> > 
> > That's my goal.
> 
> In fact, we (which means basically Alan Stern and me at this point) are working
> with Arve on this right now.

At least for (d) we - Nokia - would be also interested as well to
contribute, see [1].

In general it should help with keeping the solution more generic.

cheers, igor

[1]
https://lists.linux-foundation.org/pipermail/linux-pm/2010-August/028248.html

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