Re: [linux-pm] [patch] complain when users abuse the pm_qos API

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Sat May 29 2010 - 19:03:30 EST


Hi.

On 30/05/10 06:08, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
On Saturday 29 May 2010, mark gross wrote:
The following patch is to help clean up API abusers of pm_qos where
they call update_request before registering a request.

--mgross

--Signed-off-by: markgross<markgross@xxxxxxxxxxx>

Will there be a big issue if I push this during the next merge window?

What's the point to the patch? That is: why is calling update_request before registering a request such a big problem that it demands a WARN() and dump stack?

Regards,

Nigel
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