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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Domenico Andreoli <domenico.andreoli@linux.com>
Cc: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>, Linux PM <linux-pm@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Preparing to phase out uswsusp
Date: Sun, 26 Apr 2020 17:46:37 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1636190.8qWULXYmPk@kreacher> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20200413190843.044112674@gmail.com>

On Monday, April 13, 2020 9:08:43 PM CEST Domenico Andreoli wrote:
> Dear maintainers,
> 
>   it is my understanding that the usermode software suspend is not any
> more the first choice for suspend/hibernate needs (uswsusp tool did
> not receive any update in years).

While the last part is true, the user space utilities are still usable.

Moreover, the kernel-based hibernation is still missing one important
piece with respect to the user space variant, which is image encryption.

That gap needs to be removed before the user space variant can be
regarded as deprecated.

> This small series aims to better separate the kernel side in view of
> a future phase out.
> 
> Marking the new option as deprecated and disabled by default is quite
> extreme but I've not any specific agenda for pushing it that far,
> it's just my interpretation and could be totally wrong.

It is not totally wrong, but a bit premature at this point.

Thanks!




  parent reply	other threads:[~2020-04-26 15:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 15+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-13 19:08 [PATCH 0/2] Preparing to phase out uswsusp Domenico Andreoli
2020-04-13 19:08 ` [PATCH 1/2] uswsusp: use enter/leave helpers and make a global variable static Domenico Andreoli
2020-04-26 16:11   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-13 19:08 ` [PATCH 2/2] uswsusp: build only when configured Domenico Andreoli
2020-04-26 16:16   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-04-27  9:48     ` Domenico Andreoli
2020-04-29 11:20       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-05-01  7:10         ` Domenico Andreoli
2020-05-01 14:54           ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-05-03 13:31             ` Domenico Andreoli
2020-05-03 17:25               ` Domenico Andreoli
2020-04-26 15:46 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2020-04-27  9:53   ` [PATCH 0/2] Preparing to phase out uswsusp Domenico Andreoli
2020-04-29 11:06     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2020-05-03 11:19       ` Domenico Andreoli

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