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

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Date:	Thu, 13 May 2010 13:17:45 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg@...hat.com>
To:	Paul Walmsley <paul@...an.com>
Cc:	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>, Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
	Tony Lindgren <tony@...mide.com>,
	Kevin Hilman <khilman@...prootsystems.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>, magnus.damm@...il.com,
	Theodore Ts'o <tytso@....edu>,
	mark gross <mgross@...ux.intel.com>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>,
	Geoff Smith <geoffx.smith@...el.com>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Benoît Cousson <b-cousson@...com>,
	linux-omap@...r.kernel.org, Vitaly Wool <vitalywool@...il.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@...csson.com>,
	Mark Brown <broonie@...nsource.wolfsonmicro.com>,
	Liam Girdwood <lrg@...mlogic.co.uk>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 09:35:30PM -0600, Paul Walmsley wrote:
> 
> Figuring out a different way to do this should not limit Android at all, 
> since Google can do what other Linux distributions do and continue to 
> patch opportunistic suspend/suspend-block calls into their kernels as 
> needed to ship devices, while contributing towards a different solution to 
> the problem.

I basically agree, except that despite having a year to do so none of us 
have come up with a different way that would actually work. Google have 
done this work. Who's going to prove that there is actually a different 
way to do this?

-- 
Matthew Garrett | mjg59@...f.ucam.org
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