From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932543Ab0E0VXK (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 17:23:10 -0400 Received: from earthlight.etchedpixels.co.uk ([81.2.110.250]:56743 "EHLO www.etchedpixels.co.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932175Ab0E0VXH (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 17:23:07 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 22:29:57 +0100 From: Alan Cox To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Alan Stern , Felipe Balbi , Arve =?ISO-8859-14?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Peter Zijlstra , "Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org" , LKML , Florian Mickler , Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Message-ID: <20100527222957.7f39b5af@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> In-Reply-To: <201005272315.28475.rjw@sisk.pl> References: <201005272315.28475.rjw@sisk.pl> X-Mailer: Claws Mail 3.7.5 (GTK+ 2.18.9; x86_64-redhat-linux-gnu) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org > Well, what about when I want the machine to suspend _regardless_ of whether > or not it's idle at the moment? That actually happens quite often to me. :-) I don't think it helps to combine them for this discussion ? > I don't see much difference between that and ACPI S3 other than the memory > contents are preserved in S3. It also is complete power off state - except for > memory refresh and wakeup sources (which also may be active in S4). Agreed although I am pushed to think of many real world cases where it might matter. VM's maybe? Alan