Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752004AbZCIPmE (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:42:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751326AbZCIPlw (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:41:52 -0400 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:37027 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751223AbZCIPlv (ORCPT ); Mon, 9 Mar 2009 11:41:51 -0400 Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2009 08:40:58 -0700 (PDT) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: Alan Stern cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Jeremy Fitzhardinge , LKML , Jesse Barnes , Thomas Gleixner , "Eric W. Biederman" , Ingo Molnar , pm list , =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Arve__Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH][1/8] PM: Rework handling of interrupts during suspend-resume (rev. 5) In-Reply-To: Message-ID: References: User-Agent: Alpine 2.00 (LFD 1167 2008-08-23) MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 990 Lines: 27 On Mon, 9 Mar 2009, Alan Stern wrote: > > I see. The unstated key point is this: > > Unsophisticated drivers [...] Another key point is: - _un_sophisticated is the norm, and anybody who expects otherwise is living in some odd la-la-land together with his or her pink unicorn and endless supplies of quaaludes. The thing is, we have about a metric sh*tload of drivers, and many of them are effectively written by people who don't really do kernel work, and are basically unmaintained in the long run (ie they may be maintained while written, but two years down the line they have a couple of hundred users and nobody who really cares about it, because the original author long since moved on to fancier hardware). Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/