Re: Update on Android PM enhancements - CONFIG_HAS_EARLYSUSPENDand friends

[Johannes Berg]

On Thu, 2011-03-24 at 10:04 +0100, Johannes Berg wrote:
> On Wed, 2011-03-23 at 17:47 -0700, Arve HjÃnnevÃg wrote:
> 
> > There is no planned replacement for early suspend, and it will
> > probably be dropped form the android kernel at some point. The wifi
> > driver use it to enter a lower operating state when the screen is off.
> > If you driver does have any other way to put the driver in this state
> > you need to add an interface that lets user-space select that state
> > directly.
> 
> The interface is called "ip link set wlan0 down".

Or, in fact, just powersaving mode. But I don't think for a wifi driver
there's any need for special driver specific states.

johannes

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