Re: [linux-pm] suspend blockers & Android integration

[Matthew Garrett]

On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 07:37:59PM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> 2010/6/6 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> > On Sun, Jun 06, 2010 at 07:21:49PM +0200, Vitaly Wool wrote:
> >> 2010/6/6 Matthew Garrett <mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>:
> >>
> >> > Suspend blocks prevent system suspend, not any per-device suspend.
> >>
> >> Can you suspend a device which is holding a wake lock?
> >
> > Yes. Suspend blocks are orthogonal to runtime PM.
> 
> That's nice, but that means that it can hold the wake lock
> indefinitely. Brilliant design, I'd say.

Putting a device in a low power state doesn't mean you can't run code in 
the driver. If a device generates an event and that event gets handled 
by the driver, the driver can take a suspend block and then release it 
when userspace reads the event. It's perfectly valid for the device to 
go into a low power state in the meantime. When I say that these things 
are orthogonal, I really do mean it.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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