From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S2992820AbXDYQRV (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:17:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S2992815AbXDYQRV (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:17:21 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:33493 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S2992820AbXDYQRU (ORCPT ); Wed, 25 Apr 2007 12:17:20 -0400 Date: Wed, 25 Apr 2007 18:16:56 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: William Heimbigner Cc: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." , Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reasons to merge suspend2. Message-ID: <20070425161656.GA17253@elf.ucw.cz> References: <200704251551.38373.a1426z@gawab.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: 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! > >>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.) > > Would it be a feasible solution to have a very minimal and generic software > suspend in the kernel, and then various userspace implementations could > take care of this? Yes please. If you want suspend-over-nfs or whatever, just add it to the userspace; we have enough support in kernel now. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html