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

From: Bernd Petrovitsch
Date: Thu May 27 2010 - 05:13:28 EST


On Mit, 2010-05-26 at 13:23 -0500, James Bottomley wrote:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 19:51 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
[...]
> > Darn, _we_ have to deal with that forever as it sets a crappy user
> > space ABI in stone.
>
> I really don't see how it is ... the ABI comes with a switch that allows
> it to be disabled, so only platforms wishing to use it have to support
> it. Even on those platforms that do support it, we can translate most

You completely missed the point: The crappy user interface - and
interferences with pother subsystems - must be maintained for ages - and
that is independent if one uses it or not. Even worse if it's not widely
used.

> of it into pm QoS stuff and if one day someone solves the rogue app
> problem, we can migrate over.

If it's so important for Android and no one else, Android can carry it
out of tree.

Bernd
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