the Power Management Daemon

[Marcelo Tosatti]

On Mon, Apr 02, 2007 at 04:56:08PM -0600, Jordan Crouse wrote:
> Hi Richard -
> 
> Power management is proceeding along nicely, and we're finally to the
> point where we can start to discuss the design and implementation of the
> OLPC Power Management Daemon.
> 
> We have started to list some possible real-world power management scenarios
> here:
> 
> http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Power_Management_Scenarios
> 
> We should start to discuss how to go about implementing these in the power
> manager - we have a bunch of eager B2 owners out there ready to start saving
> power!  :)
> 
> Everybody, please feel free to comment on the page I linked above - we've
> only defined those scenarios that are currently within our reach, but there
> are others that we eventually want to support.

The userspace burn-CPU-madness which happens after resume is partially
due to removal/addition of the eth0,msh0 and lo files in /sys/class/net,
which in the end triggers ifdown/ifup and who knows what else
inbetween. The down/up procedures are not necessary if this was a fast
suspend/resume, but necessary if it was a long suspend/resume (so we
possibly moved the machine to another access point network and need to
rerun dhclient).

This should be handled by udev/HAL/PMD - need to get work on that
started ASAP.