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

[Florian Mickler]

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 20:16:33 +0300
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Do you realistically think that by hurting the _user_ you will make the
> > _developer_ write better code?  No, really.
> 
> As an application writer, if my users complain that their battery is
> being drained (as it happened), they stop using it, and other people
> see there are problems, so they stop using it, if people get angry
> about it they will vote it down.
> 
> New users will see it has low score; they will not install it. That's
> a network effect.
> 
> Having users is the quintessential reason people write code.
> 

That is nice. But how does it impact the problem that suspend blockers
solve? And why do suspend blockers interfere with that?

Cheers,
Flo
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