On Thu, 27 May 2010, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 13:04 -0400, Alan Stern wrote: > > > > Does this mean you believe "echo mem >/sys/power/state" is bad and > > should be removed? Or "echo disk >/sys/power/state"? They pay no > > attention to latencies or other requirements. > > Those are a whole different beast, those are basically a quick-off > button like thing. Forced suspend is conceptually a very different beast > from power-saving a running system.
They may be different conceptually. Nevertheless, Android uses forced suspend as a form of power saving. Until better mechanisms are in place, it makes sense. Alan Stern -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
