From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758755AbXGEA14 (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:27:56 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1755739AbXGEA1s (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:27:48 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:37870 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-FAIL) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756074AbXGEA1s (ORCPT ); Wed, 4 Jul 2007 20:27:48 -0400 Date: Thu, 5 Jul 2007 02:27:47 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Adrian Bunk Cc: Paul Mackerras , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Benjamin Herrenschmidt , Matthew Garrett , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: The big suspend mess Message-ID: <20070705002747.GA2952@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20070703042916.GA17240@srcf.ucam.org> <200707031456.40890.rjw@sisk.pl> <1183497290.3388.4.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200707032332.49694.rjw@sisk.pl> <18059.5165.861038.392332@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> <20070704221952.GM3492@stusta.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20070704221952.GM3492@stusta.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 > IMHO the suspend code is currently way too much of a moving target which > results in this mess. > > The correct order seems to be: 0. Get someone to sign up as a maintainer for suspend, so we have someone to blame for the mess? :-) > 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. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html