Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754598AbZLSXXe (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:23:34 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754487AbZLSXXd (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:23:33 -0500 Received: from smtp1.linux-foundation.org ([140.211.169.13]:38884 "EHLO smtp1.linux-foundation.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754451AbZLSXXc (ORCPT ); Sat, 19 Dec 2009 18:23:32 -0500 Date: Sat, 19 Dec 2009 15:23:22 -0800 (PST) From: Linus Torvalds X-X-Sender: torvalds@localhost.localdomain To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" cc: Dmitry Torokhov , Alan Stern , Zhang Rui , LKML , ACPI Devel Maling List , pm list Subject: Re: Async suspend-resume patch w/ completions (was: Re: Async suspend-resume patch w/ rwsems) In-Reply-To: <200912200010.19899.rjw@sisk.pl> Message-ID: References: <200912192233.44575.rjw@sisk.pl> <200912200010.19899.rjw@sisk.pl> 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: 771 Lines: 21 On Sun, 20 Dec 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > Well, I guess this is the example of the off-tree dependencies that actually > matter Linus wanted. :-) It's also the kind of dependency where I say "if we get into these kinds of messes, then the whole async crap isn't worth it". Really. Having to try to match things up with ACPI and PnP is a nightmare. Especially since I doubt Windows does anything like this, which means that there's no reason for BIOS vendors to do the tables so that we'd even know. 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/