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

[Paul E. McKenney]

On Sat, Aug 28, 2010 at 10:51:35AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 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...

It does sounds like there is some variety, then.  Thank you for the info!

							Thanx, Paul
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