Re: swsusp3: push image reading/writing into userspace

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>]

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Hi.

On Thu, 2005-09-15 at 16:37, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Here's prototype code for swsusp3. It seems to work for me, but don't
> > > try it... yet. Code is very ugly at places, sorry, I know and will fix
> > > it. This is just proof that it can be done, and that it can be done
> > > without excessive ammount of code.
> > 
> > No comments on the code sorry. Instead I want to ask, could you please
> > find a different name? swsusp3 is going to make people think that it's
> > Suspend2 redesigned. Since there hasn't been a swsusp2 (so far as I
> > know), how about using that name instead? At least then we'll clearly
> > differentiate the two implementations and you won't confuse/irritate
> > users.
> 
> swsusp2 can't be used, it is already "taken" by suspend2 (25000 hits
> on google). I was actually hoping that you would release suspend4
> (using swsusp3 infrastructure) :-).

You could reclaim it. There are 10 times as many hits (239,000) for
suspend2, and I've never wanted it to be called swsusp2 anyway :). As
for suspend4, at the moment, I'm not planning on ever progressing beyond
2.x.

> I guess I could call it "uswsusp".

u as in micro?

Regards,

Nigel

> 								Pavel
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