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Date: Wed, 5 May 2010 14:31:31 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com> To: mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com> Cc: Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, markgross@...gnar.org, Len Brown <len.brown@...el.com>, linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Jesse Barnes <jbarnes@...tuousgeek.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>, Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@...el.com>, Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org> Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api. On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:50:50PM -0700, mark gross wrote: > In my sequence above I had the modem driver "magically" knowing to fail > this suspend attempt. (that "magic" wasn't fully thought out though.) If the modem driver knows to "magically" fail a suspend attempt until it knows that userspace has consumed the event, you have something that looks awfully like suspend blockers. > There *has* to be a better way. But nobody has reasonably proposed one and demonstrated that it works. We've had over a year to do so and failed, and I think it's pretty unreasonable to ask Google to attempt to rearchitect based on a hypothetical. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org -- 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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