On Mon, May 31, 2010 at 11:47 PM, Florian Mickler <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, 31 May 2010 22:12:19 +0200 > Florian Mickler <florian@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> If I have a simple shell script then I don't wanna jump through >> hoops just to please your fragile kernel. > > Also why should that code on one device kill my uptime and on the > other machine (my wall-plugged desktop) work just well? That doesn't > sound right. Sounds perfectly right to me; one code runs perfectly fine on one machine, and on the other doesn't even compile. Well, sure, it wasn't written with that use-case in mind. > Clearly opportunistic suspend is a workaround for battery-driven devices > and no general solution. But it is not specific to android. At least > not inherently. It could be useful for any embedded or mobile device > where you can clearly distinguish important functions from convenience > functions. Yes, it could, but why go for the hacky solution when we know how to achieve the ideal one? > I really can't understand the whole _fundamental_ opposition to this > design choice. Nobody is using it, except Android. Nobody will use it, except Android. I have seen recent proposals that don't require changing the whole user-space. That might actually be used by other players. -- Felipe Contreras -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-omap" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
