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Subject: Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three
From: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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On Tue, Aug 10, 2010 at 7:45 AM, Paul E. McKenney
<paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 09, 2010 at 08:18:22PM +0100, Alan Cox wrote:
>> You are tightly linking suspend blockers with Android. If they were a
>> sensible general solution they would be generic not tied closely to
>> Android
>
> Android is certainly where suspend blockers originated, and is to the best
> of my knowledge is still the only platform that uses them.  But there is
> a first user of every new mechanism, and for some time that first user
> will by definition be the only user of that mechanism.  So the fact
> that Android is most probably the only user of suspend blockers does
> not prove anything about whether or not suspend blockers are sensible.

No, it's the fact that *nobody* else has said: hey, that looks like a
good idea, we should use that in our mobile platform (or any
platform).

-- 
Felipe Contreras
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