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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 -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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