Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.

Tony Lindgren
2010-05-07T18:43:33Z

* Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> [100507 11:23]:
> On Fri, May 07, 2010 at 11:01:52AM -0700, Tony Lindgren wrote:
> > * Matthew Garrett <mjg@redhat.com> [100507 10:46]:
> > > Effective power management in the face of real-world applications is a
> > > reasonable usecase.
> >
> > Sure there's no easy solution to misbehaving apps.
>
> That's the point of the suspend blockers.

To me it sounds like suspending the whole system to deal with
some misbehaving apps is an overkill. Sounds like kill -STOP
the misbehaving apps should do the trick?

Tony