Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Aug 2010 22:25:04 +0300 | Subject | Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three | From | Felipe Contreras <> |
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Paul E. McKenney <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote: > On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:18:22PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote: >> You are tightly linking suspend blockers with Android. If they were a >> sensible general solution they would be generic not tied closely to >> Android > > Android is certainly where suspend blockers originated, and is to the best > of my knowledge is still the only platform that uses them. But there is > a first user of every new mechanism, and for some time that first user > will by definition be the only user of that mechanism. So the fact > that Android is most probably the only user of suspend blockers does > not prove anything about whether or not suspend blockers are sensible.
No, it's the fact that *nobody* else has said: hey, that looks like a good idea, we should use that in our mobile platform (or any platform).
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