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Date: Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:51:35 +0200 From: Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz> To: "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> Cc: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>, Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>, Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, david@...g.hm, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, arve@...roid.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, 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 Hi! > > You are *one* user of the kernel. Let's suppose Android wasn't using > > suspend-blockers, and there was another equally successful linux > > mobile platform, Foobingo, and they were using them, and they were the > > only ones interested on implementing them. > > > > What does that change? Nothing. They still need to convince the > > community that what they are proposing to be merged is actually > > useful, and somebody will use it. If not, they can just keep the patch > > for themselves until they do. I don't see the big deal. > > So the current users of the Linux kernel are the following? > > o GNU/Linux > o Android > > Do any other distributions or devices with unusual user-space layouts > qualify? QTembedded distros are somehow similar to android (one big binary). Then there's minor stuff, like webOS and Motorola A1200... Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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