Re: Suspend 2 merge

Nigel Cunningham
2004-11-29T22:25:16Z

Hi.

On Mon, 2004-11-29 at 20:34, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
>
> > The cryptoapi provides support for both compression and encryption. I'd
> > happily make use of that, but we still need a way for the user to choose
> > what compression/encryption they want and configure it. I'm not at all
>
> And encryption is in fact much more needed than compression. Remember,
> you are writing everything in memory (including maybe ssh passphrases or
> gpg keys) to swap in clear text. Not nice. And i agree that compression
> is nice to have, too.
>
> >>>:> But not everyone who uses 2.6.9 uses swsusp. :>
>
> and not everyone who downloads suspend2 uses it ;-)

Yes... I'd say the relative percentage would be much higher, though.

> > change a parameter or forcing them to do an ls in /dev with obscure
> > parameters (to get the major and minor numbers) when they already know
> > they want /dev/sda1 isn't user friendly. Obviously user friendliness is
>
> This can easily be done by a userspace helper. You do use the
> (userspace) X server to display your GUI, don't you?

No. Not at all. All of userspace is well and truly wedged in a block of
ice by then.

> Putting only the absolutely necessary things into the kernel (the same
> is true for the interactive resume thing - if someone wants interactive
> startup at a failing resume, he has to use an initrd, i don't see a
> problem with that) will probably increase the acceptance a bit :-)

That's fine if your initrd is properly configured and you're willing to
add extra cruft to the kernel so userspace can get the info it needs,
and report what the user wants to do. If, however, you don't use an
initrd, you're sunk.

Regarding acceptance, there's no point in getting it accepted into the
kernel if we end up with something that's user-unfriendly. I think it
will help a lot if we agree that suspend does need to blur the lines
between kernel and userspace a little, in the interests of providing
software that is superior.

Regards,

Nigel
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