From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030462AbVIOHQd (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:16:33 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030460AbVIOHQ3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:16:29 -0400 Received: from b3162.static.pacific.net.au ([203.143.238.98]:20201 "EHLO cunningham.myip.net.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030462AbVIOHQY (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:16:24 -0400 Subject: Re: [linux-pm] swsusp3: push image reading/writing into userspace From: Nigel Cunningham Reply-To: ncunningham@cyclades.com To: Pavel Machek Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux-pm mailing list In-Reply-To: <20050915063753.GA2691@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050914223206.GA2376@elf.ucw.cz> <1126749596.3987.5.camel@localhost> <20050915063753.GA2691@elf.ucw.cz> Content-Type: text/plain Organization: Cyclades Message-Id: <1126768581.3987.31.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.4.6-1mdk Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 17:16:21 +1000 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 --