Re: [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8)

Florian Mickler
2010-06-05T19:49:39Z

On Sat, 5 Jun 2010 20:16:33 +0300
Felipe Contreras <felipe.contreras@gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jun 1, 2010 at 12:14 AM, Rafael J. Wysocki <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:
> > Do you realistically think that by hurting the _user_ you will make the
> > _developer_ write better code?  No, really.
>
> 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.
>
> New users will see it has low score; they will not install it. That's
> a network effect.
>
> Having users is the quintessential reason people write code.
>

That is nice. But how does it impact the problem that suspend blockers
solve? And why do suspend blockers interfere with that?

Cheers,
Flo