From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755563AbXGCN1V (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:27:21 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753605AbXGCN1O (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:27:14 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:44737 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753256AbXGCN1N (ORCPT ); Tue, 3 Jul 2007 09:27:13 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: Suspend2 is getting a new name. Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 15:34:05 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.5 Cc: Bill Davidsen , nigel@suspend2.net, LKML References: <200707021730.57066.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> <46894F8F.3070607@tmr.com> <200707030808.26802.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> In-Reply-To: <200707030808.26802.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-15" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200707031534.06350.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi, On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 00:08, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 05:18:39 Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > > > Suspend2's name is changing to "TuxOnIce". > > > > > > This is for a couple of reasons: > > > > > > In recent discussions on LKML, the point was made that the word "Suspend" > is > > > confusing. It is used to refer to both suspending to disk and suspending > to > > > ram. Life will be simpler if we more clearly differentiate the two. > > > > > > The name Suspend2 came about a couple of years ago when we made the 2.0 > > > release and started self-hosting. If we ever get to a 3.0 release, the > name > > > could become even more confusing! (And there are already problems with > people > > > confusing the name with swsusp and talking about uswsusp as version 3!). > > > > > > http://www.suspend2.net is still working at the moment, but we'll shift to > > > http://www.tuxonice.net over the next while. The wiki and bugzilla are > > > already done; email will remain on suspend2.net for a little while and git > > > trees will be renamed at the time of the next stable release. > > > > > I guess this is "good news, bad news" time. The good news is that the > > "suspend with working resume" project is still active, the bad news is > > that making provisions for long term out of mainline operation sounds as > > if you have no hope of getting this code into the mainline kernel. :-( > > Let's not turn this into a flamewar, please. This is just a name change, > nothing more. > > As far as I know, the desire on Rafael's part and mine is still to get at > least some of the functionality merged. The only reason this isn't happening > yet is that we're both busy with other aspects of the work. Rafael is > focussing on infrastructure issues, I'm focussing on minimising the diff and > finishing off cleaning up and adding comments to functions. That's correct, thanks for saying this! My first target is to introduce a framework allowing drivers to have different callbacks for hibernation and suspend. Unfortunately, that turned out to require quite a lot of work - and time - to do. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth