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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.63.0704281214380.11638@qynat.qvtvafvgr.pbz>
Date:	Sat, 28 Apr 2007 12:15:50 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Lang <david.lang@...italinsight.com>
To:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Josh Triplett <josh@...nel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2:
  hang in atomic copy)

On Sat, 28 Apr 2007, Bill Davidsen wrote:

> Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
>> (And for me personally, I'd love to have all my machines "sleep" by 
>> default, but wake up by eithernet and keyboard - I'd love for my screen 
>> saver to literally put the machine to sleep, but not have to worry about 
>> touching a keyboard - just ssh'ing into them should still wake up. It's 
>> *technically* doable, but it's just a pain to do right now)
>> 
> And timer somehow so cron jobs could still run. Ideal for critical but rarely 
> used machines like fallover servers, the user documentation download site, or 
> similar.

with dynaticks now in the kernel it may even be possible to have the idle 
process decide that the next event is far enough away that it should 
suspend-to-ram until that point.

David Lang
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