From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Matthew Garrett Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 19:31:00 +0100 Message-ID: <20100527183100.GP3543@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100527173218.GF2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274981750.27810.5641.camel@twins> <20100527174140.GB3187@srcf.ucam.org> <1274982397.27810.5679.camel@twins> <20100527175258.GB3543@srcf.ucam.org> <1274982981.27810.5719.camel@twins> <20100527175920.GE3543@srcf.ucam.org> <1274983598.27810.5761.camel@twins> <20100527181758.GJ3543@srcf.ucam.org> <1274984528.27810.5818.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:42904 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755166Ab0E0SbR (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 14:31:17 -0400 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1274984528.27810.5818.camel@twins> Sender: linux-omap-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Alan Cox , Arve =?iso-8859-1?B?SGr4bm5lduVn?= , Florian Mickler , Vitaly Wool , LKML , Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org, felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 08:22:08PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 19:17 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > It's blocked on the screen being turned off. It's supposed to be reading > > a network packet. How does it ever get to reading the network packet? > > Its blocked because its a buggy app, who cares about misbehaviour in a > buggy app? So why bother blocking? Just kill the app and tell the user. If you want to support suboptimal apps then blocking isn't sufficient. If you don't want to then blocking isn't necessary. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org