[linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH 00/11] Android PM extensions

Pavel Machek pavel at ucw.cz
Mon Feb 2 03:46:44 PST 2009


On Fri 2009-01-30 13:34:02, Uli Luckas wrote:
> On Friday, 30. January 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > >> - The user-space input-event thread returns from read. It determines
> > > >> that the key should not wake up the system, releases the
> > > >> process-input-events wakelock and calls select or poll.
> > > >
> > > > This makes no sense.  If the system wasn't asleep to begin with, how
> > > > could the key wake it up?  And if the system _was_ asleep to begin
> > > > with, how could all of this happen without waking the system up?
> > >
> > > What I mean here is that the screen turns on and the system does not
> > > immediately go back to sleep. The user-space framework has its own
> > > idea of whether the system is awake or not. I can change this to
> > > "fully wake up" or "turn on the screen".
> >
> > "turn on the screen", please. (But I still don't quite get it; screen
> > should be at full control of userspace, so why is kernel interaction
> > needed?) Pavel
> >
> Turning on the screen is only on thing userspace can do. What exactly happens 
> is beyon the scope of the kernel interface.
> The right term is probably something like "break out of auto-suspend" or "wake 
> from auto suspend".

I guess I'm missing big parts of the picture here. It would be nice to
document how it all works together... somewhere.
									Pavel
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