On Sat, 31 Jul 2010, Paul E. McKenney wrote: > > > o "Power-aware application" are applications that are permitted > > > to acquire suspend blockers on Android. Verion 8 of the > > > suspend-blocker patch seems to use group permissions to > > > determine which applications are classified as power aware. > > > > > > More generally, power-aware applications seem to be those that > > > have permission to exert some control over the system's > > > power state. > > > > I don't like the term "Power aware application". An application is well > > behaved or it isn't. "aware" has nothing to do with it. > > Applications are often complex enough to be aware of some things, naive > about others, well behaved in some ways, and ill-behaved in others. > This has been the case for some decades now, so it should not come as > a surprise. > > I am of course open to suggestions for alternatives to the term "power > aware application", but most definitely not to obfuscating the difference > between power awareness (or whatever name one wishes to call it) and > the overall quality of the application, whatever "quality" might mean > in a given context. This is a false dichotomy. The two of you have fallen into a logical trap. I forget the word used to describe an argument based on a fundamental misunderstanding, but it applies here. The term "power-aware" has _nothing_ to do with how well behaved an application is, or its quality (in any sense). Go back and re-read the definition; you'll see what I mean. Alan Stern _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
