Re: [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PM / Sleep: Extended control of suspend/hibernate interfaces

[Valdis . Kletnieks]

On Tue, 25 Oct 2011 13:52:44 +1100, NeilBrown said:
> On Mon, 24 Oct 2011 12:23:43 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> > On Monday, October 24, 2011, NeilBrown wrote:
> > > On Sun, 23 Oct 2011 15:16:36 +0200 "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > > Similarly every system need one process to manage suspend.  It can be my
> > > daemon or your daemon or Alan's daemon but it cannot be 2 or more of them
> > > running at the same time as that doesn't make any more sense than having
> > > systemd and init running at the same time.
> >
> > I agree that it doesn't makes sense.  I don't agree that it implies people
> > won't try to do that.
>
> Does that matter?  If they complain, tell them it isn't a supported
> configuration.

We however *should* design things in such a way that if a second one is started
up, it tosses a nice obvious -EIDIOT error of some sort.

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