From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1759371Ab0E0Rkc (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 13:40:32 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:32881 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1759342Ab0E0Rka (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 May 2010 13:40:30 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 May 2010 18:40:19 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner , Alan Stern , Paul@smtp1.linux-foundation.org, LKML , Florian Mickler , felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM , Alan Cox Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Message-ID: <20100527174019.GA3187@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100527173118.GE2468@srcf.ucam.org> <1274981680.27810.5636.camel@twins> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1274981680.27810.5636.camel@twins> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) X-SA-Exim-Connect-IP: X-SA-Exim-Mail-From: mjg59@cavan.codon.org.uk X-SA-Exim-Scanned: No (on cavan.codon.org.uk); SAEximRunCond expanded to false Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thu, May 27, 2010 at 07:34:40PM +0200, Peter Zijlstra wrote: > > we still need to be able to enter suspend while the system isn't idle. > > _WHY_!? Because if I'm running a kernel build in a tmpfs and I hit the sleep key, I need to go to sleep. Blocking processes on driver access isn't sufficient. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org