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

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Message-ID: <20100527162740.GA9625@nokia.com>
Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 19:27:40 +0300
From:	Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@...ia.com>
To:	ext Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@...roid.com>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	"Paul@...p1.linux-foundation.org" <Paul@...p1.linux-foundation.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>,
	"Balbi Felipe (Nokia-D/Helsinki)" <felipe.balbi@...ia.com>,
	Linux OMAP Mailing List <linux-omap@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux PM <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 05:06:23PM +0200, ext Alan Stern wrote:
>If people don't mind, here is a greatly simplified summary of the
>comments and objections I have seen so far on this thread:
>
>	The in-kernel suspend blocker implementation is okay, even
>	beneficial.

I disagree here. I believe expressing that as QoS is much better. Let 
the kernel decide which power state is better as long as I can say I 
need 100us IRQ latency or 100ms wakeup latency.

-- 
balbi

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