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

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Message-ID: <20100828085135.GA2711@ucw.cz>
Date:	Sat, 28 Aug 2010 10:51:35 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>
Cc:	Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@...il.com>,
	Brian Swetland <swetland@...gle.com>,
	Theodore Tso <tytso@....edu>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>, david@...g.hm,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	arve@...roid.com, mjg59@...f.ucam.org, florian@...kler.org,
	rjw@...k.pl, stern@...land.harvard.edu, peterz@...radead.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, menage@...gle.com, david-b@...bell.net,
	James.Bottomley@...e.de, arjan@...radead.org, swmike@....pp.se,
	galibert@...ox.com, dipankar@...ibm.com
Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

Hi!

> > You are *one* user of the kernel. Let's suppose Android wasn't using
> > suspend-blockers, and there was another equally successful linux
> > mobile platform, Foobingo, and they were using them, and they were the
> > only ones interested on implementing them.
> > 
> > What does that change? Nothing. They still need to convince the
> > community that what they are proposing to be merged is actually
> > useful, and somebody will use it. If not, they can just keep the patch
> > for themselves until they do. I don't see the big deal.
> 
> So the current users of the Linux kernel are the following?
> 
> o	GNU/Linux
> o	Android
> 
> Do any other distributions or devices with unusual user-space layouts
> qualify?

QTembedded distros are somehow similar to android (one big binary).

Then there's minor stuff, like webOS and Motorola A1200...
								Pavel
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