Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/8] PM: suspend_block: Add driver to access suspend blockers from user-space | Date | Thu, 27 May 2010 00:45:15 +0200 |
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On Thursday 27 May 2010, Alan Cox wrote: > > This whole thing is related to the statistics part, which Arve says is > > essential to him. He wants to collect statistics for each suspend blocker > > activated and deactivated so that he can tell who's causing problems by > > blocking suspend too often. The name also is a part of this. > > If he wants to collect stats about misbehaving code then presumably he > needs reliable stats. Arbitary user set names are not reliable and > judging by app vendor behaviour in the proprietary space with other such > examples they will actively name their blockers in a manner specifically > intended to hide the cause so as to 'reduce support costs'. > > Its a waste of memory (especially if I create a million of them with a > long name for fun).
Well, I won't argue with that. :-)
> It's all an economic system, proprietary app vendors are in it to make > money, some will therefore game the system and the rest will be forced to > follow to keep their playing field fair.
Good point.
Rafael
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