Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Thu May 13 2010 - 15:49:00 EST


On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:36:34PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > See feature-removal-schedule.txt. So far we have no indication that it's
> > going to be replaced, because nobody has actually suggested a working
> > way to do this better. If we had a concrete implementation proposal for
> > that then we'd be in a pretty different position right now.
>
> Ok, feature-removal-schedule.txt applies to everything tho. What your
> saying is that if this interface only last a short time it might take 6
> months, if it last for a long time it would take longer. There's no easy
> way to know that Google is the only user after some amount of time
> passes.

If the interface is there for a long time, it's because we haven't come
up with anything better. And if we haven't come up with anything better,
the interface deserves to be there.

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