From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Peter Zijlstra Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 17:05:26 +0200 Message-ID: <1274972726.27810.5144.camel@twins> References: <1274867106.5882.5090.camel@twins> <20100526120242.5c9b73ad@schatten.dmk.lab> <20100526133721.602633b2@schatten.dmk.lab> <20100526142430.327ccbc4@schatten.dmk.lab> <20100526141612.3e2e0443@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100527003943.07c17f85@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <20100527140655.GA28048@srcf.ucam.org> <20100527160543.2228fc17@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Return-path: Received: from bombadil.infradead.org ([18.85.46.34]:44276 "EHLO bombadil.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754132Ab0E0PFl convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 11:05:41 -0400 In-Reply-To: <20100527160543.2228fc17@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Alan Cox Cc: Matthew Garrett , Arve =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= , Florian Mickler , Vitaly Wool , LKML , Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 16:05 +0100, Alan Cox wrote: > What is the problem here - your device driver for the display can block > tasks it doesn't want to use the display. Very well put again. I bet the next example is a proglet that does: while(1); without device interaction :-).