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OS X and iOS Kernel Programming
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OS X and iOS Kernel Programming

by Ole Henry Halvorsen, Douglas Clarke
December 2011
Intermediate to advanced
485 pages
15h 47m
English
Apress
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Putting It All Together

In this section, we combine what we have covered in this chapter into a single sample that demonstrates one way of structuring a driver that not only responds to power state changes from the system, but also lowers its own power state when the device has been idle for 5 minutes.

For demonstration purposes, the sample driver defines four power states consisting of the mandatory off and on states, as well as two lower power modes. The off and on state will be set by the power management system when the computer is put to sleep and woken from sleep. The two intermediate states are reached when the device has been left idle for a period; the driver sets up an idle timer in its start() method to lower the device's power state ...

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