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

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Message-ID: <20100527181712.GI3543@srcf.ucam.org>
Date:	Thu, 27 May 2010 19:17:12 +0100
From:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
Cc:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
	Paul@...p1.linux-foundation.org,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Florian Mickler <florian@...kler.org>, 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 08:05:39PM +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:

> You're just not getting it. If user space has consumed the event is
> not relevant at all.
> 
> What's relevant is whether the app has processed the event and reacted
> accordingly. That's all that matters.

And how do you know that? We can't rely on the process scheduler.

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