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Date: Sun, 8 Aug 2010 18:09:56 +0100
From: Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread
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On Sun, Aug 08, 2010 at 08:08:33PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
> On Sun, Aug 8, 2010 at 7:08 PM, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@srcf.ucam.org> wrote:
> > It's clearly possible for a pathological Android application to destroy
> > the power management policy. But to do that, the author would have to
> > explicitly take a wakelock. That's difficult to do by accident.
> 
> The writer can take a wakelock the whole time the application is
> running (isn't that the typical case?), because perhaps the author
> realizes that way the application works correctly, or he copy-pasted
> it from somewhere else.

No, that's not the typical case.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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