linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PM: Rearrange core suspend code

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Date:	Sun, 7 Jun 2009 16:51:41 -0400 (EDT)
From:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
cc:	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	ACPI Devel Maling List <linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC][PATCH 0/2] PM: Rearrange core suspend code

On Sun, 7 Jun 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Here's something I wanted to do quite some time ago.
> 
> kernel/power/main.c becomes more and more difficult to maintain over time,
> since it contains both the suspend to RAM core code and some common PM code
> that is also used for hibernation.  For this reason [1/2] separates the suspend
> to RAM code from main.c and puts it into two new files (the test facility is,
> again, separated from the core code for clarity).
> 
> [2/2] renames kernel/power/disk.c to kernel/power/hibernate.c, because the role
> of this file is analogous to kernel/power/suspend.c (introduced by [1/2]).
> 
> Comments welcome.

Looks like a good idea to me.

Alan Stern

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