Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

Paul E. McKenney
2010-08-31T00:04:37Z

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:51:35AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > You are *one* user of the kernel. Let's suppose Android wasn't using
> > > suspend-blockers, and there was another equally successful linux
> > > mobile platform, Foobingo, and they were using them, and they were the
> > > only ones interested on implementing them.
> > >
> > > What does that change? Nothing. They still need to convince the
> > > community that what they are proposing to be merged is actually
> > > useful, and somebody will use it. If not, they can just keep the patch
> > > for themselves until they do. I don't see the big deal.
> >
> > So the current users of the Linux kernel are the following?
> >
> > o GNU/Linux
> > o Android
> >
> > Do any other distributions or devices with unusual user-space layouts
> > qualify?
>
> QTembedded distros are somehow similar to android (one big binary).
>
> Then there's minor stuff, like webOS and Motorola A1200...

It does sounds like there is some variety, then. Thank you for the info!

Thanx, Paul