suspend on 'idle'
pgf at laptop.org
pgf at laptop.org
Thu Aug 7 11:15:12 EDT 2008
chris wrote:
>
> I think what you actually want is one of two things:
>
> * Not to suspend in the presence of any large network transfer.
> I think this would only be necessary for your ethernet case, since
> on wireless we're just going to be woken up by the next incoming
> packet. As a result, I'm not so interested in adding this given
> that you can inhibit suspend manually.
>
> * Not to suspend when a USB device capable of generating external
> interrupts (USB keyboard, USB ethernet) is plugged in. I'd be
> willing to add that, but I haven't worked out what the best way
> to detect what classes of USB devices are being used is. Maybe
> that's something you can help with?
this might be an approach for the first problem, too -- inhibit
suspend in the presence of a USB ethernet adapter (perhaps
conditioned on UP and RUNNING as well).
paul
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paul fox, pgf at laptop.org
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