From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1422678AbWF0WXD (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:23:03 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1422681AbWF0WXB (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:23:01 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:57556 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1422664AbWF0WWu (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Jun 2006 18:22:50 -0400 Date: Wed, 28 Jun 2006 00:22:34 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Andreas Mohr Cc: Brad Campbell , Nigel Cunningham , Linux Kernel Mailing List , suspend2-devel@lists.suspend2.net Subject: swsusp / suspend2 reliability (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: Suspend2 - Request for review & inclusion in -mm) Message-ID: <20060627222234.GP29199@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200606270147.16501.ncunningham@linuxmail.org> <20060627133321.GB3019@elf.ucw.cz> <44A14D3D.8060003@wasp.net.au> <20060627154130.GA31351@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060627154130.GA31351@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11+cvs20060126 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > uswsusp is a great idea, really.. I love it.. but suspend2 is here, it > > works, it's stable and it's now. Why continue to deprive the mainstream of > > these features because "uswsusp should".. as yet it doesn't.. and when it > > does then we can phase out the currently stable, working alternative that > > has all these features that uswsusp _will_ have, after it's had them for a > > year or so and its been proven stable. Not only that, I'll be happy to > > migrate over to it. Until then however, you can pry suspend2.. cold, > > dead.. blah blah.. > > Given the above explanation, it's obvious that I'm an outside watcher now, > but if swsusp2 success rate is clearly higher than the standard version, > then I'd also strongly advocate this direction since, quite frankly, I do not think suspend2 works on more machines than in-kernel swsusp. Problems are in drivers, and drivers are shared. That means that if you have machine where suspend2 works and swsusp does not, please tell me. I do not think there are many of them. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html