Re: Attempted summary of suspend-blockers LKML thread, take three

Neil Brown
2010-08-14T03:18:45Z

On Fri, 13 Aug 2010 17:07:02 +0200
"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl> wrote:

> >
> > There is no absolute need to start the suspend process from within the
> > kernel, but it makes the user space code much simpler for what we
> > need.
>
> I'm entirely aware of that. Still, I think user space is the right place to
> initiate system suspend.
>

For what it's worth - I completely agree.

Clearly there is no a lot of unanimity on this, and so lots of room to
experiment with different approaches. It's best if we leave as much as
possible of that experimentation in user-space - just have the kernel do what
cannot be done elsewhere.

NeilBrown