From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6) Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 20:48:20 +0100 Message-ID: <20100513194820.GA19722@srcf.ucam.org> References: <1272667021-21312-1-git-send-email-arve@android.com> <20100513121745.GA10749@srcf.ucam.org> <1273771990.19100.13.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <1273775157.19100.20.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100513183646.GA18155@srcf.ucam.org> <1273777177.19100.24.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> <20100513191142.GA18886@srcf.ucam.org> <1273779394.19100.47.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1273779394.19100.47.camel@c-dwalke-linux.qualcomm.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Daniel Walker Cc: Brian Swetland , Paul Walmsley , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Tejun Heo , Oleg Nesterov , Tony Lindgren , Kevin Hilman , Alan Stern , magnus.damm@gmail.com, Theodore Ts'o , mark gross , Arjan van de Ven , Geoff Smith , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , =?iso-8859-1?Q?Beno=EEt?= Cousson , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Vitaly Wool , Mark Brown , Liam Girdwood List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:36:34PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > See feature-removal-schedule.txt. So far we have no indication that it's > > going to be replaced, because nobody has actually suggested a working > > way to do this better. If we had a concrete implementation proposal for > > that then we'd be in a pretty different position right now. > > Ok, feature-removal-schedule.txt applies to everything tho. What your > saying is that if this interface only last a short time it might take 6 > months, if it last for a long time it would take longer. There's no easy > way to know that Google is the only user after some amount of time > passes. If the interface is there for a long time, it's because we haven't come up with anything better. And if we haven't come up with anything better, the interface deserves to be there. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org