On Tue, 17 Feb 2009 14:51:41 +0000
Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:

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> On Tue, Feb 17, 2009 at 06:46:30AM -0800, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> 
> > actually with powertop... on the open source side things are
> > actually won. It took all of 6 months...
> > I don't see that as a valid excuse. In fact, if this kind of
> > solution makes real userspace scheduled timers to be missed then I
> > consider it a serious functionality misfeature.
> 
> Remember that Android has an open marketplace designed to appeal to
> Java programmers - users are going to end up downloading code from
> there and then blaming the platform if their battery life heads
> towards zero. I think "We can't trust our userland not to be dumb" is
> a valid concern.

so use range timers / timer slack for those apps that you do not trust.
That is not a big deal, and solves the issue of timer wakeups...


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