Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.

[Peter Zijlstra]

On Tue, 2010-05-25 at 22:21 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> 
> Now, we can reject their patches, but that's not going to cause any progress
> to happen, realistically.  Quite on the contrary, Android will continue to use
> wakelocks and Android driver writers will continue to ignore the mainline
> and the gap between the two kernel lines will only get wider and wider over
> time.
> 
> And what really is the drawback if we merge the patches?  Quite frankly,
> I don't see any. 

A funny userspace API of questionable use (esp. with the advent of
better hardware and better runtime PM support) which we will have to
support forever seems like a big enough downside.
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