From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/13] PM: Add wake lock api. Date: Thu, 26 Feb 2009 16:04:30 +0100 Message-ID: <20090226150430.GA1398@ucw.cz> References: <1233802226-23386-1-git-send-email-arve@android.com> <200902112323.53421.rjw@sisk.pl> <200902122322.30864.rjw@sisk.pl> <13B9B4C6EF24D648824FF11BE89671620377169672@dlee02.ent.ti.com> <20090213011035.GA8664@srcf.ucam.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20090213011035.GA8664@srcf.ucam.org> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Matthew Garrett Cc: "swetland@google.com" , "ncunningham@crca.org.au" , "u.luckas@road.de" , "linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org" List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > It is discouraging to hear comments like "we have been talking about for years something else" yet nothing exists or is in open development. Things can evolve in place. > > This is userlad-visible ABI. We can't evolve it in place - we need to > get it right before merging it, otherwise we need to carry on > maintaining code for an extended period of time in order to ensure that > there's no userland code that depends on it. Plus... sleepy patches showed that autosuspend can be done *without* new userland ABIs. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html