linux-kernel - Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

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Message-ID: <20070425214601.GH17387@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Wed, 25 Apr 2007 23:46:01 +0200
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	Christian Hesse <mail@...thworm.de>,
	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>, Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Con Kolivas <kernel@...ivas.org>,
	suspend2-devel@...ts.suspend2.net,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Arjan van de Ven <arjan@...radead.org>
Subject: Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

Hi!

> > > And no, "three different implementations" doesn't cut it. Even _two_ is 
> > > too much. We need to get *rid* of something, not add more.
> > 
> > swsusp can be dropped. It is nice -- self contained, extremely easy to
> > setup, Andrew likes it. uswsusp has all the features, and pretty
> > elegant design. With klibc (or some way to ship userland code with
> > kernel, and put it into initramfs or something) we can reasonably drop
> > swsusp.
> 
> Well, I think we still need it and will need it in the future, at least for
> debugging.  Moreover, I think there are many users of it.
> 
> Let's not drop things that are helping us. :-)

Yes, it is very nice for debugging. But if I _had_ to choose, I'd
rather remove swsusp than uswsusp.
									Pavel
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