Date: Thu, 12 Aug 2010 21:27:39 +0200
From: Dominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
To: Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com>
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Subject: Re: [linux-pm] Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread,
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Felipe,

> If you think suspend blockers are useful for you, great, use them. I
> just don't see why they should be merged if nobody is going to use
> them but you.

Aren't there many drivers in the kernel sources which are only used by very
few users? Android is used by million users, albeit on one platform, but I
don't see this to be a valid reason to keep this functionality out of the
kernel.

Best,
	Dominik
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