On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:40 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > 2010/5/26 Peter Zijlstra <pet...@infradead.org>: > > On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 03:25 -0700, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote: > > > >> and on systems where the > >> same power state can be used from idle and suspend, we use suspend so > >> we can stay in the low power state for minutes to hours instead of > >> milliseconds to seconds. > > > > So don't you think working on making it possible for systems to be idle > > _that_ long would improve things for everybody? as opposed to this > > auto-suspend which only improves matters for those that (can) use it? > > I'm not preventing anyone from working on improving this. Currently > both the kernel and our user-space code polls way too much. I don't > think it is reasonable to demand that no one should run any user-space > code with periodic timers when we have not even fixed the kernel to > not do this.
All I'm saying is that merging a stop-gap measure will decrease the urgency and thus the time spend fixing the actual issues while adding the burden of maintaining this stop-gap measure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
