Re: [PATCH 1/8] PM: Opportunistic suspend support.

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Wed, 26 May 2010 13:23:00 CDT, James Bottomley said:
> On Wed, 2010-05-26 at 19:51 +0200, Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> > Darn, _we_ have to deal with that forever as it sets a crappy user
> > space ABI in stone.
> 
> I really don't see how it is ... the ABI comes with a switch that allows
> it to be disabled, so only platforms wishing to use it have to support
> it.  Even on those platforms that do support it, we can translate most
> of it into pm QoS stuff and if one day someone solves the rogue app
> problem, we can migrate over.

And yet, the OSS drivers are *still* in-tree, even though similar arguments
apply to an OSS->ALSA migration.  And there's a bunch of other stuff in
Documentation/feature-removal-schedule.txt in a similar situation.

Remember - programming is like sex. One poorly planned release and you're
stuck maintaining it for years. :)

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