From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756836Ab0E1LpU (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 07:45:20 -0400 Received: from cavan.codon.org.uk ([93.93.128.6]:53747 "EHLO cavan.codon.org.uk" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754553Ab0E1LpS (ORCPT ); Fri, 28 May 2010 07:45:18 -0400 Date: Fri, 28 May 2010 12:45:04 +0100 From: Matthew Garrett To: Bernd Petrovitsch Cc: Alan Stern , Alan Cox , Peter Zijlstra , LKML , Florian Mickler , felipe.balbi@nokia.com, Linux OMAP Mailing List , Linux PM Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 0/8] Suspend block api (version 8) Message-ID: <20100528114504.GB22947@srcf.ucam.org> References: <20100527210808.GB8865@srcf.ucam.org> <20100527212852.GA9859@srcf.ucam.org> <1275040988.20005.29.camel@thorin> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1275040988.20005.29.camel@thorin> 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 Fri, May 28, 2010 at 12:03:08PM +0200, Bernd Petrovitsch wrote: > On Don, 2010-05-27 at 22:28 +0100, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > At the point where you're rewriting the application you can just make it > > adhere to our current behavioural standards anyway. > > Thank you for confirming that the so-called "feature" is just there to > make apps work in some area that are crappy anyways - and God knows in > which other areas they are crappy too. Kind of like memory protection, really. Or preemptive multitasking. Or many things that the kernel does to prevent badly written applications from interfering with other applications or the user's experience. -- Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org