[android-kernel] Re: WiFi behavior/policy while device is asleep

2010-02-05 Thread dimitr...@android.com
Hi, We (phone user) want to be CONNECTED for different reasons. It doesn't matter through Wifi or 3G. Switching between Wifi and 3G is VERY expensive from power consumption perspective, so switching on every screen OFF is not an option. 1 hour is too much. 1 minute is too short. We chose 15 minute

[android-kernel] Re: WiFi behavior/policy while device is asleep

2010-02-05 Thread dimitr...@android.com
Hi, We (phone user) want to be CONNECTED for different reasons. It doesn't matter through Wifi or 3G. Switching between Wifi and 3G is VERY expensive from power consumption perspective, so switching on every screen OFF is not an option. 1 hour is too much. 1 minute is too short. We chose 15 minute

[android-kernel] Re: WiFi behavior/policy while device is asleep

2010-02-05 Thread dimitr...@android.com
Hi, We (phone user) want to be CONNECTED for different reasons. It doesn't matter through Wifi or 3G. Switching between Wifi and 3G is VERY expensive from power consumption perspective, so switching on every screen OFF is not an option. 1 hour is too much. 1 minute is too short. We chose 15 minute

[android-kernel] WiFi behavior/policy while device is asleep

2010-02-05 Thread Andrew Boie
Hello, I have been making some observations on how WiFi behaves when the device is put to sleep. I am seeing that even though the WiFi power policy is set to "When Screen Turns off", the wifi driver will be active for another 15 minutes until the device is quiescent. I have seen two implementation

[android-kernel] Re: Android drivers removed from mainstream kernel

2010-02-05 Thread Andreas Trawoeger
On 5 Feb., 04:17, Disconnect wrote: > (Moving to android-kernel) > > "I know all about this but I can't say anything" is less than convincing. > Perhaps you can involve someone who -can- point to the (presumably public) > discussions and problems you are referring to? > If I wouldn't be a vivid L

[android-kernel] accelerometer driver example?

2010-02-05 Thread Robin Getz
Where is an example of an accelerometer driver that properly connects to the android sensor event API? http://developer.android.com/reference/android/hardware/SensorEvent.html We have an accelerometer driver - http://patchwork.kernel.org/patch/53645/ but I expect that it doesn't expose things in

[android-kernel] kernel boot cmdline

2010-02-05 Thread Rik
Hi all, I've a question about passing parameters to the kernel. First of all: is it possible ? I tried to add parameters statically while I was recompiling the kernel with make menuconfig, but it didn't worked, then I saw the output of cat /proc/cmdline with adb shell and I tried to add them in ext