Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.

[Arve Hjønnevåg]

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, mgross <markgross@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 06:09:56PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:01:51AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>
>> > Or are you suspending constantly, tens of times per minute even if
>> > there's no user activity?
>>
>> In this case you'd be repeatedly trying to suspend until the modem
>> driver stopped blocking it. It's pretty much a waste.
>
>
> lets not go off in the weeds for the wrong things now.  The answer to
> the retry is at most one time.  The first time would be blocked, then
> the suspend enable would need to re-enabled under user mode control that
> would, buy that time, know it has to ack to the modem to stop rejecting
> the suspend attempt.
>

This is incorrect in the general case. User-space has no way of
knowing which driver blocked suspend or when it will stop blocking
suspend.

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Arve Hjønnevåg
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