Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Aug 28 2010 - 04:51:55 EST


Hi!

> > You are *one* user of the kernel. Let's suppose Android wasn't using
> > suspend-blockers, and there was another equally successful linux
> > mobile platform, Foobingo, and they were using them, and they were the
> > only ones interested on implementing them.
> >
> > What does that change? Nothing. They still need to convince the
> > community that what they are proposing to be merged is actually
> > useful, and somebody will use it. If not, they can just keep the patch
> > for themselves until they do. I don't see the big deal.
>
> So the current users of the Linux kernel are the following?
>
> o GNU/Linux
> o Android
>
> Do any other distributions or devices with unusual user-space layouts
> qualify?

QTembedded distros are somehow similar to android (one big binary).

Then there's minor stuff, like webOS and Motorola A1200...
Pavel
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