linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)

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Date:	Wed, 5 May 2010 19:39:54 +0100
From:	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
Cc:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>, magnus.damm@...il.com,
	mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Geoff Smith <geoffx.smith@...el.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)

On Wed, May 05, 2010 at 06:33:37PM +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> We seem to have ended up managing most of our PM infrastructure 
> iteratively. If the concern is more about best practices than intrinsic 
> incompatibilities, I'd lean towards us being better off merging this now 
> and then working things out over the next few releases as we get a 
> better understanding of the implications. The main thing that we have to 
> get right in the short term is the userspace API - everything else is 
> easier to fix up as we go along.

Right, the big issue for me is that there's likely to be some form of
userspace API visible for controlling this.  I think I can keep it
mostly in-kernel for audio (by providing new APIs to mark some inputs
and outputs as being live during suspend) but need to check.
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