Re: [swsusp] separate snapshot functionality to separate file

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Čt 06-10-05 00:54:19, Lorenzo Colitti wrote:
> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >>- It was dog slow because it doesn't use compression
> >>- Even though it's dog slow, it doesn't save all RAM
> >>  - Therefore the machine is dog slow after resume
> >>- It doesn't have a decent UI
> >>- There is no way to abort suspend once it's started. [...]
> >
> >With uswsusp (aka swsusp3), you can do all this in userland. Stop
> >whining, start hacking... Code is at kernel.org/git/.../linux-sw3.
> 
> But that was exactly my point: there's no need to hack!
> 
> The code is there. It's well tested, fast, stable, and does what users 
> need. It's called suspend2. Why work on yet another implementation 
> instead of just merging that?

Most of that code does not belong it kernel. It can't be "just
merged". If we had nice "vi" implementation in kernel, we'd have to
drop it and start again in userland. This is similar.

								Pavel
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