On Mit, 2010-05-26 at 13:23 -0500, James Bottomley wrote: > 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 You completely missed the point: The crappy user interface - and interferences with pother subsystems - must be maintained for ages - and that is independent if one uses it or not. Even worse if it's not widely used. > of it into pm QoS stuff and if one day someone solves the rogue app > problem, we can migrate over. If it's so important for Android and no one else, Android can carry it out of tree. Bernd -- Bernd Petrovitsch Email : bernd@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx LUGA : http://www.luga.at -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-doc" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html