Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 13 May 2010 20:48:20 +0100 | From | Matthew Garrett <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6) |
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On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:36:34PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > See feature-removal-schedule.txt. So far we have no indication that it's > > going to be replaced, because nobody has actually suggested a working > > way to do this better. If we had a concrete implementation proposal for > > that then we'd be in a pretty different position right now. > > Ok, feature-removal-schedule.txt applies to everything tho. What your > saying is that if this interface only last a short time it might take 6 > months, if it last for a long time it would take longer. There's no easy > way to know that Google is the only user after some amount of time > passes.
If the interface is there for a long time, it's because we haven't come up with anything better. And if we haven't come up with anything better, the interface deserves to be there.
-- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org
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