Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:07:06AM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:
> On Thu, 5 Aug 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> The decision on whether or not to go to sleep isn't the difficult bit of
>> this problem space.
>
> but isn't that all that wakelocks do? affect the decision on whether or  
> not to go to sleep.

You could think of them that way, but it's not the useful aspect of them 
- that much could be implemented entirely in userspace. Wakelocks 
provide a mechanism for userspace to ensure that it's handled all 
received events before a system suspend takes place.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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