linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] The big suspend mess

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0707051013170.3728-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>
Date:	Thu, 5 Jul 2007 10:14:14 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	Adrian Bunk <bunk@...sta.de>
cc:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>,
	<linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	<linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] The big suspend mess

On Thu, 5 Jul 2007, Adrian Bunk wrote:

> IMHO the suspend code is currently way too much of a moving target which 
> results in this mess.
> 
> The correct order seems to be:
> 1. agree on what the suspend code as a whole should look like
> 2. implement this
> 3. fix ALL drivers to work at least as good as they do today
> 4. get it tested in -mm
> 5. fix all bugs people run into
> 6. submit it for inclusion in Linus' tree
> 7. quickly work on the most likely big amount of bug reports
> 
> Step 1 is the most important one - evolving code is often something 
> good, but in this case with different people trying to evolve the 
> suspend code in different directions it simply results in a big mess.

Isn't Step 1 exactly what we are in the midst of right now?

Alan Stern

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