On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:18:22PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> You are tightly linking suspend blockers with Android. If they were a >> sensible general solution they would be generic not tied closely to >> Android > > Android is certainly where suspend blockers originated, and is to the best > of my knowledge is still the only platform that uses them. But there is > a first user of every new mechanism, and for some time that first user > will by definition be the only user of that mechanism. So the fact > that Android is most probably the only user of suspend blockers does > not prove anything about whether or not suspend blockers are sensible. No, it's the fact that *nobody* else has said: hey, that looks like a good idea, we should use that in our mobile platform (or any platform). -- Felipe Contreras _______________________________________________ linux-pm mailing list linux-pm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linux-foundation.org/mailman/listinfo/linux-pm
