From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Florian Mickler Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Date: Sat, 5 Jun 2010 21:49:39 +0200 Message-ID: <20100605214939.49dd0ee0@schatten.dmk.lab> References: <20100527222514.0a1710bf@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> <1275149418.4503.128.camel@mulgrave.site> <1275156734.1645.496.camel@laptop> <201005312314.12391.rjw@sisk.pl> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-15 Content-Transfer-Encoding: QUOTED-PRINTABLE Return-path: In-Reply-To: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Felipe Contreras Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Peter Zijlstra , James Bottomley , Arve =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Hj=F8nnev=E5g?= , tytso@mit.edu, LKML , Linux PM , Thomas Gleixner , Linux OMAP Mailing List , felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Alan Cox List-Id: linux-omap@vger.kernel.org On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 20:16:33 +0300 =46elipe Contreras wrote: > On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki wrot= e: > > Do you realistically think that by hurting the _user_ you will make= the > > _developer_ write better code? =A0No, really. >=20 > As an application writer, if my users complain that their battery is > being drained (as it happened), they stop using it, and other people > see there are problems, so they stop using it, if people get angry > about it they will vote it down. >=20 > New users will see it has low score; they will not install it. That's > a network effect. >=20 > Having users is the quintessential reason people write code. >=20 That is nice. But how does it impact the problem that suspend blockers solve? And why do suspend blockers interfere with that? Cheers, =46lo