From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Felipe Balbi Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6) Date: Mon, 17 May 2010 22:39:53 +0300 Message-ID: <20100517193952.GC14047@gandalf> References: <87hbm6cz90.fsf@deeprootsystems.com> <1274115885.4418.59.camel@mulgrave.site> <20100517174647.GA11512@gandalf> <1274119179.4418.68.camel@mulgrave.site> <20100517181252.GA14260@gandalf> <1274124267.4418.149.camel@mulgrave.site> <20100517193840.GB14047@gandalf> Reply-To: me@felipebalbi.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from ns1.siteground211.com ([209.62.36.12]:42248 "EHLO serv01.siteground211.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755448Ab0EQTjN (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 May 2010 15:39:13 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20100517193840.GB14047@gandalf> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Balbi Cc: James Bottomley , Kevin Hilman , Alan Stern , linux-omap@vger.kernel.org, Theodore Ts'o , Geoff Smith , Brian Swetland , Kernel development list , Oleg Nesterov , Mark Brown , Tejun Heo , Linux-pm mailing list , Arjan van de Ven , Liam Girdwood , Matthew Garrett hi, On Mon, May 17, 2010 at 10:38:40PM +0300, Felipe Balbi wrote: > that's a whole other story. Hardware issues are things which in 99.999% > of the cases we can't change. We have to work around them. Software > bugs, on the other hand, can be fixed much more easily. I'm sure you > agree with that, don't you ? > > Trying to make a comparisson between hardware bug and software bug is > simply non-sense in this case. before you reply saying that most of the problems are firmware bugs, try to file a bug to any of the usb storage manufacturers and wait for them to fix. It's virtualy impossible, so let's consider it a problem that has to be worked around. -- balbi