linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.

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Message-ID: <15650.1274899857@localhost>
Date:	Wed, 26 May 2010 14:50:57 -0400
From:	Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
To:	James Bottomley <James.Bottomley@...e.de>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Arve Hj?nnev?g <arve@...roid.com>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@...il.com>,
	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
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	Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@...otime.net>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
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	linux-doc@...r.kernel.org, Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>, tytso@....edu
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.

On Wed, 26 May 2010 13:23:00 CDT, James Bottomley said:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 19:51 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Darn, _we_ have to deal with that forever as it sets a crappy user
> > space ABI in stone.
> 
> I really don't see how it is ... the ABI comes with a switch that allows
> it to be disabled, so only platforms wishing to use it have to support
> it.  Even on those platforms that do support it, we can translate most
> of it into pm QoS stuff and if one day someone solves the rogue app
> problem, we can migrate over.

And yet, the OSS drivers are *still* in-tree, even though similar arguments
apply to an OSS->ALSA migration.  And there's a bunch of other stuff in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in a similar situation.

Remember - programming is like sex. One poorly planned release and you're
stuck maintaining it for years. :)

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