Re: [PATCH 01/13] PM: Add wake lock api.

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On Thursday 12 February 2009, Arve Hjønnevåg wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 11, 2009 at 2:23 PM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> >> >> It allows wakelocks with timeouts
[--snip--]
> > Well, you put quite a lot of effort into making this nicely debuggable and so
> > on, but I think you should have submitted the minimal core functionality first
> > to see if people were comfortable with it.
> 
> The code I submitted is usable and tested.

Unfortunately, that doesn't help it a lot.  There's a lot of usable and tested
code out of the kernel.

In general, kernel code is mergeable if people agree with it, which is not the
case with your patches.

> Without wakelocks we cannot use suspend, and without wakelock timeouts
> we cannot pass events to components that do not use wakelocks.

This is a very strong statement, as though there had not been any alternative
to the wakelocks.  I don't really think it's the case.

Thanks,
Rafael
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