Saturday, November 6, 2010

wakeup from suspend to Ram

echo mem > /sys/power/state should suspend to ram and
echo on > /sys/power/state should wake up the device from suspend.

Former was not working on Atlas phone. It was because the read from /sys/power/state was not implemented properly. When you try to read it should print all the valid power states. But it was only giving mem as the output. In file kernel/power/main.c, function state_show calls valid_states which in turn calls a architecture implemented function pointer. The function is called by passing mem, on or standby as the argument. It will return true if it architecture support the argument state. So state_show will give out put accordingly.

Previously it was giving true only for mem. Modified the .valid function pointer in the architecutre file (arch/arm/plat-samsung/pm.c) to give true for mem, on and standby. This fixed the wakeup issue.

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