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

Peter Zijlstra
2010-05-27T17:56:36Z

On Thu, 2010-05-27 at 18:52 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote:

> If that's what you're aiming for then you don't need to block
> applications on hardware access because they should all already have
> idled themselves.

Correct, a well behaved app would have. I thought we all agreed that
well behaved apps weren't the problem?

> > Note that it doesn't need to broadcast this, it could opt to reply with
> > that message on the first drawing attempt after it goes away and block
> > on the second.
>
> That's more interesting, but you're changing semantics quite heavily at
> this point.

So?