From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751897AbZHTPYB (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:24:01 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751206AbZHTPYA (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:24:00 -0400 Received: from ogre.sisk.pl ([217.79.144.158]:38417 "EHLO ogre.sisk.pl" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750829AbZHTPX7 (ORCPT ); Thu, 20 Aug 2009 11:23:59 -0400 From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" To: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: What to do? Date: Thu, 20 Aug 2009 17:24:34 +0200 User-Agent: KMail/1.12.0 (Linux/2.6.31-rc6-rjw; KDE/4.3.0; x86_64; ; ) Cc: "linux-pm" , LKML , "TuxOnIce-devel" References: <4A8CCF95.9030401@crca.org.au> In-Reply-To: <4A8CCF95.9030401@crca.org.au> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200908201724.34430.rjw@sisk.pl> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Thursday 20 August 2009, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi all. Hi, > A few months back, I posted TuxOnIce for something like the third time, > seeking to see if we could make some progress on getting it merged. The > outcome of that was an agreement between Rafael and I that we'd work on > getting TuxOnIce functionality (if not the actual code) merged bit by > bit, improving swsusp rather than doing an outright merge. > > Unfortunately, as the intervening months have shown, Rafael is busy with > other things and so am I. The few patches I did prepare and post have > had no review, and I haven't had a chance to build on or rework them > since. (I'd actually like them not to be merged, because I've realised > that there are more foundational changes that need to go in first.) > > Given that this has been the outcome so far, I see no reason to imagine > that we're going to make any serious progress any time soon. That unfortunately is probably right. The problem for my part is that new things are still appearing that I need to take care of rather urgently. In fact the user space part of (u)swsusp also has been suffering from the lack of attention recently, so to speak. > I'd therefore like to ask whether there's anyone out there who could do > one or more of: > > 1) Step up to the plate and help improve swsusp, without relying on any > help from me but with my blessing if they choose to copy wholesale bits > of TuxOnIce; > 2) Take over maintaining TuxOnIce from me; > 3) Some other way forward that hasn't occurred to me. > > Thoughts, input, flames, whatever else welcome. A lack of deadly silence > would be especially appreciated :) Well, the code is out there. If there's time to try to get it in, I think it's worth doing. Best, Rafael