linux-kernel - Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

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Message-ID: <20070425161656.GA17253@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:16:56 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	William Heimbigner <icxcnika@....tar.cc>
Cc:	"John Anthony Kazos Jr." <jakj@...-k-j.com>,
	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

Hi!

> >>I didn't read your whole post, it's way too long, but I would like to see
> >>your patch in mainline as an option to swsusp.  What would make this
> >>infeasible?
> >
> >For one thing, Linus said not but yesterday that he doesn't want multiple
> >competing suspend algorithms like this in the kernel at once. (If I parsed
> >his message correctly, he doesn't want any in the kernel, but he's putting
> >up with it because it seems somewhat needed.)
> 
> Would it be a feasible solution to have a very minimal and generic software 
> suspend in the kernel, and then various userspace implementations could 
> take care of this? 

Yes please. If you want suspend-over-nfs or whatever, just add it to
the userspace; we have enough support in kernel now.
									Pavel
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