linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

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Message-ID: <AANLkTimCrOqizJ7LL7t3hN=wMF_oxNFPxKbjWz_AsZ_U@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Fri, 13 Aug 2010 13:43:08 +0300
From:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>
To:	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>, david@...g.hm,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>, peterz@...radead.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, James.Bottomley@...e.de,
	galibert@...ox.com, florian@...kler.org, menage@...gle.com,
	swmike@....pp.se, linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org,
	paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, arjan@...radead.org
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread,
 take three

On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 10:52 PM, Dominik Brodowski
<linux@...inikbrodowski.net> wrote:
> On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 12:48:48PM -0700, Brian Swetland wrote:
>> I guess I don't understand,
>
> I guess I don't, either -- there are some parts of the kernel used by only a
> handful of users... and here we speak about million users...

A driver that sits in a corner and doesn't show in the 'menuconfig' of
most people and is used by small fraction of user-space applications
(perhaps even 0) is just fine. But we are talking of something
centric, that can be enabled on all systems, and that affects all
user-space.

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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