Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread

[Matthew Garrett]

On Thu, Aug 05, 2010 at 07:22:53AM -0700, david@xxxxxxx wrote:

> I'm not sure it's possible to completely eliminate the race, even with  
> wakelocks there is some time between the time you last check if the  
> wakelock is set and when the hardware finishes responding to your 
> commands to go to sleep (Unless you can set a level-based interrupt that 
> will wake you up as soon as you finish going to sleep)

It's typically the case that you can - we've even seen that on x86 with 
ACPI GPEs.

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