Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: Fix handling of highmem

Nigel Cunningham
2006-08-09T11:52:10Z

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On Wednesday 09 August 2006 21:38, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Comments welcome.
> >
> > Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten half the reason why I didn't want
> > to make Suspend2 into incremental patches! You're a brave man!
>
> Why does this serve as a reminder? No, it is not easy to merge big
> patches to mainline. But it is actually a feature.

It serves as a reminder because it shows (just the description, I mean), how
inter-related all the changes that are needed are.

I don't get the "it is actually a feature" bit.

> > while (1) {
> > size=$RANDOM * 65536 + 1
> > dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=$size | patch -p0-b
> > make && break
> >}
>
> Is this what you use to generate suspend2 patches? :-)))))

:) Actually, given Greg's OLS keynote, I was wondering if it was what he used
to generate them.

Regards,

Nigel
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