Re: The big suspend mess

Pavel Machek
2007-07-05T00:27:56Z

> IMHO the suspend code is currently way too much of a moving target which
> results in this mess.
>
> The correct order seems to be:

0. Get someone to sign up as a maintainer for suspend, so we have
someone to blame for the mess? :-)

> 1. agree on what the suspend code as a whole should look like
> 2. implement this
> 3. fix ALL drivers to work at least as good as they do today
> 4. get it tested in -mm
> 5. fix all bugs people run into
> 6. submit it for inclusion in Linus' tree
> 7. quickly work on the most likely big amount of bug reports
>
> Step 1 is the most important one - evolving code is often something
> good, but in this case with different people trying to evolve the
> suspend code in different directions it simply results in a big mess.

Pavel
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