On Thu, Aug 12, 2010 at 02:11:22PM +0300, Felipe Contreras wrote:
The question is not whether suspend blockers are a silver bullet (in my
opinion there are no silver bullets), but rather whether or not suspend
blockers are useful.
As does dynamic power management.
Really? From what I can see, only PM-driving applications need to use
suspend blockers.
Fortunately, experience thus far has shown that only a small fraction of
applications need to use suspend blockers. (Or perhaps you are instead
saying that the implementation of the suspend-blocker infrastructure
itself is not straightforward? It is not clear from your words.)
This one I agree with.
The length of this thread (and the ones preceding it) is mostly due to
people talking past each other. For example, the Android folks seem to
believe that it is important that relatively unskilled people be able
to write simple apps, and that the system nevertheless be able to run
these apps in a relatively energy efficient manner. Your proposals do
not address this issue. This might be because you are not aware of
this desire, because you are not aware of the computing history that
argues in favor of this requirement, or because you simply don't like
this requirement. Whatever the reason, until you face this requirement
head on, either addressing it or proving that it need not be addressed,
you will continue to be talking past the Android folks.
Thanx, Paul
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