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

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon May 24 2010 - 15:08:31 EST


On Mon, May 24, 2010 at 08:57:54PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:

> And btw I do have wakelock-less implementation of autosleep, that only
> sleeped the machine when nothing was ready to run. It was called
> "sleepy linux". Should I dig it out?

As has been explained several times now, that's not equivalent. The
difference is what makes this a hard problem. If a usecase is valid and
nobody can come up with a convincing explanation of what an elegant
solution would look like, then the ugly solution wins.

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