On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Chris Ball wrote: > Hi, > > > To avoid further scrutiny from the media (like: > > http://news.cnet.com/8301-13512_3-9766574-23.html ), it would > > probably be better to forget the whole suspend techniques all at > > once. > > I feel like you're proposing that we avoid the problem of giving out > inaccurate predictions by giving out an inaccurate prediction in the > other direction -- quoting battery life times that we know we're going > to be able to beat as soon as we turn on suspend/resume. > > My proposal is instead to stop giving out inaccurate predictions, wait > a little longer, and publish real data.
the trouble is that there is no such thing as 'real data' with suspend/resume because the power used is so highly dependant on actual useage patterns. however a worst case 'you will always get this much time, and may get significantly more' is very repeatable and testable. David Lang _______________________________________________ Devel mailing list Devel@lists.laptop.org http://lists.laptop.org/listinfo/devel