linux-kernel - Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

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Date:	Fri, 6 Aug 2010 19:05:37 -0700
From:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>
To:	david@...g.hm
Cc:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arve@...roid.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, pavel@....cz,
	florian@...kler.org, rjw@...k.pl, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de, alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk,
	menage@...gle.com, david-b@...bell.net, James.Bottomley@...e.de,
	tytso@....edu, arjan@...radead.org, swmike@....pp.se,
	galibert@...ox.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

On Fri, Aug 6, 2010 at 4:59 PM,  <david@...g.hm> wrote:
>
> now, android is betting that the apps are all developed specifically for the
> android from scratch, so having a different API is acceptable, even if it
> cuts them off from the rest of the *nix applications. For a phone this is
> not neccessarily an unreasonable stance, but as Android moves into the
> spaces where normal applications are in use (netbooks and tablets), this
> becomes a much shakier stance to take.

"Normal" apps work reasonably well -- they get halted when the screen
turns off, just like they do when my laptop suspends.

Wakelocks are useful for mobile-centric apps that you want to keep
running in the background, wake up and do work when the device is
"asleep", etc.

Brian
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