Re: [RFD] Automatic suspend

[Matthew Garrett]

On Wed, Feb 18, 2009 at 09:48:04AM -0800, Jesse Barnes wrote:

> I think "powernag" would be a better name, and it would probably work pretty 
> well.  Users would be notified that certain apps should probably be shut down 
> while they're on battery, and nag the authors to fix it.

How do you usefully tell the difference between an application that's 
waking up a lot because it's dumb and an application that's waking up a 
lot because it's doing something useful? One downside of powertop is 
that it's resulted in a lot of "How do I reduce the number of wakeups 
caused by i8042 whenever I use the mouse"-type questions. We don't want 
innocent app writers to be hit by this kind of thing.

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