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

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On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:56:21PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:52 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 
> > If that's what you're aiming for then you don't need to block 
> > applications on hardware access because they should all already have 
> > idled themselves.
> 
> Correct, a well behaved app would have. I thought we all agreed that
> well behaved apps weren't the problem?

Ok. So the existing badly-behaved application ignores your request and 
then gets blocked. And now it no longer responds to wakeup events. So 
you penalise well-behaved applications without providing any benefits to 
badly-behaved ones.

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