linux-kernel - Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

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Date:	Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:25:04 +0300
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc:	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, "Ted Ts'o" <tytso@....edu>,
	david@...g.hm, Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arve@...roid.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, pavel@....cz,
	florian@...kler.org, rjw@...k.pl, stern@...land.harvard.edu,
	peterz@...radead.org, tglx@...utronix.de, menage@...gle.com,
	david-b@...bell.net, James.Bottomley@...e.de, arjan@...radead.org,
	swmike@....pp.se, galibert@...ox.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:18:22PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> You are tightly linking suspend blockers with Android. If they were a
>> sensible general solution they would be generic not tied closely to
>> Android
>
> Android is certainly where suspend blockers originated, and is to the best
> of my knowledge is still the only platform that uses them.  But there is
> a first user of every new mechanism, and for some time that first user
> will by definition be the only user of that mechanism.  So the fact
> that Android is most probably the only user of suspend blockers does
> not prove anything about whether or not suspend blockers are sensible.

No, it's the fact that *nobody* else has said: hey, that looks like a
good idea, we should use that in our mobile platform (or any
platform).

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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