From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2005 08:13:20 +1100 Message-ID: <1132175574.25230.111.camel@localhost> References: <20051116164429.GA5630@kroah.com> <1132172445.25230.73.camel@localhost> <20051116220500.GF12505@elf.ucw.cz> Reply-To: ncunningham@cyclades.com Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <20051116220500.GF12505@elf.ucw.cz> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: Greg KH , "Gross, Mark" , Dave Jones , Linux Kernel Mailing List , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux-pm mailing list List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi. On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:05, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Please, everyone realize that Nigel's code is not going to be merged > > > into mainline as it is today. He knows it, and everyone else involved > > > knows it. Nigel also knows the proper procedure for getting his changes > > > into mainline, if he so desires, as we all sat in a room last July and > > > discussed this (lwn.net has a summary somewhere about it too...) > > > > Do you mean "as it was in July"? I haven't been sitting on my hands > > since July :) My wife will testify to that! > ... > > I've also split the one patch that most people see into what is > > currently about 225 smaller patches, each adding only one small part, am > > writing descriptions for them all and am preparing to build a git tree > > from it. > > I'm not sure that gets suspend2 any closer to merging. 225 small > patches is still awful lot of code :-(. Now... if something can be > done in userspace, it probably should. And I'm trying to show that > suspend2 functionality can indeed be done in userspace. > > So... to get 225 patches in, you'll need to explain that > userland-swsusp can't work. If you can do that, please be nice and do > it soon, so that I don't waste too much time on userland-swsusp. I thought Dave already did that. Regards, Nigel