Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 20 May 2010 07:15:28 +0200 | From | Florian Mickler <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6) |
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On Wed, 19 May 2010 09:59:34 +0300 Felipe Balbi <felipe.balbi@nokia.com> wrote:
> >The corollary is that real world systems have to operate in the face of > >misbehaving hardware *and* software. > > I still think the kernel shouldn't deal with broken applications and we > shouldn't try to fix them in kernel space. We can, of course, try to > find them and have all sorts of bells and whistles shouting 'process > %s is preventing CPU from sleeping for %llu nanoseconds' or something > like that. >
But with that, you still shift the burden of exchanging that app with an feature-equivalent non-broken version to the user. which is not user friendly and not necessary if you have a "smart" enough kernel.
Cheers, Flo
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