RE: [lwip-devel] Re: [patch #7085] Restart system timeout handling

[Bill Auerbach]

>How would you like to implement support for this in the NO_SYS==0 case?
>Does this even make sense? The sys_check_timeouts() is also not
>available for NO_SYS==0, which is obvious. The sys_restart_timeouts() is
>an extension to the sys_check_timeouts(). We could also add an argument
>to the sys_check_timeouts() function for this case, but I doubt that
>this will be more practical.

It makes sense if the system has a low-power/standby mode which is exited by an 
interrupt.  The OS would wake up, restore to normal executing mode, resume its 
threads and do this timer reset before returning from wakeup.

Bill