Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH 1/8] PM: Add suspend block api.

[Matthew Garrett]

On Tue, May 04, 2010 at 06:50:50PM -0700, mark gross wrote:

> In my sequence above I had the modem driver "magically" knowing to fail
> this suspend attempt.  (that "magic" wasn't fully thought out though.)

If the modem driver knows to "magically" fail a suspend attempt until it 
knows that userspace has consumed the event, you have something that 
looks awfully like suspend blockers.

> There *has* to be a better way.

But nobody has reasonably proposed one and demonstrated that it works. 
We've had over a year to do so and failed, and I think it's pretty 
unreasonable to ask Google to attempt to rearchitect based on a 
hypothetical.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
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