linux-kernel - Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:37 -0400
From:	Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject:  Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
>> 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.)

My take on what he said also included avoiding putting critical stuff in 
user space, resulting in problems keeping the whole process consistent.

-- 
Bill Davidsen <davidsen@....com>
   "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from
the machinations of the wicked."  - from Slashdot

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