linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.

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Date:	Thu, 6 May 2010 21:10:14 -0700
From:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>
To:	markgross@...gnar.org
Cc:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>, Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
	Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.

On Thu, May 6, 2010 at 8:45 PM, mgross <markgross@...gnar.org> wrote:
> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 06:09:56PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
>> On Thu, May 06, 2010 at 10:01:51AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
>>
>> > Or are you suspending constantly, tens of times per minute even if
>> > there's no user activity?
>>
>> In this case you'd be repeatedly trying to suspend until the modem
>> driver stopped blocking it. It's pretty much a waste.
>
>
> lets not go off in the weeds for the wrong things now.  The answer to
> the retry is at most one time.  The first time would be blocked, then
> the suspend enable would need to re-enabled under user mode control that
> would, buy that time, know it has to ack to the modem to stop rejecting
> the suspend attempt.
>

This is incorrect in the general case. User-space has no way of
knowing which driver blocked suspend or when it will stop blocking
suspend.

-- 
Arve Hjønnevåg
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