[linux-pm] [PATCH 01/13] PM: Add wake lock api.

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Fri Feb 13 11:14:26 PST 2009


On Fri, Feb 13, 2009 at 07:13:52PM +0100, Uli Luckas wrote:
> On Friday, 13. February 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> >
> > The daemon holds the lock in the first place.
> When did the daemon take the lock? When it anticipated the process would 
> crash?

When it was first asked to. In this model invidual applications wouldn't 
take locks themselves - it would be up to the daemon to handle the 
kernel interaction.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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