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Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 6)
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Date: Thu, 13 May 2010 14:16:39 -0700
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On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 23:11 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 13 May 2010, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > On Thu, May 13, 2010 at 12:36:34PM -0700, Daniel Walker wrote:
> > > On Thu, 2010-05-13 at 20:11 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > > > See feature-removal-schedule.txt. So far we have no indication that it's 
> > > > going to be replaced, because nobody has actually suggested a working 
> > > > way to do this better. If we had a concrete implementation proposal for 
> > > > that then we'd be in a pretty different position right now.
> > > 
> > > Ok, feature-removal-schedule.txt applies to everything tho. What your
> > > saying is that if this interface only last a short time it might take 6
> > > months, if it last for a long time it would take longer. There's no easy
> > > way to know that Google is the only user after some amount of time
> > > passes.
> > 
> > If the interface is there for a long time, it's because we haven't come 
> > up with anything better. And if we haven't come up with anything better, 
> > the interface deserves to be there.
> 
> Moreover, the interface is already in use out-of-tree and that usage is
> actually _growing_, so we have a growing number of out-of-tree drivers that
> aren't megrgeable for this very reason.

Why can't we merge the drivers? Drivers are just drivers, they don't
need this to get merged. (They need it to work with Android)

Daniel