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On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:31 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> Even if we could use suspend-via-deep-idle-state on PCs, 

( see Alan Cox's argument on PCs )

> we still need to be able to enter suspend while the system isn't idle.

_WHY_!?

We've been trying to tell you you don't need that.