Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp

Greg KH
2005-11-16T06:30:31Z

On Wed, Nov 16, 2005 at 06:35:30AM +0200, Dumitru Ciobarcianu wrote:
> ??n data de Mi, 16-11-2005 la 00:32 +0100, Pavel Machek a scris:
> > ...but how do you provide nice, graphical progress bar for swsusp
> > without this? People want that, and "esc to abort", compression,
> > encryption. Too much to be done in kernel space, IMNSHO.
>
> Pavel, you really should _listen_ when someone else is talking about the
> same things in different implementations. suspend2 has this feature
> (nice graphical progress bars in userspace) for a long time now and it's
> compatible with the fedora kernels.

It's also implemented in the kernel, which is exactly the wrong place
for this. Pavel is doing this properly, why do you doubt him?

> Why don't you and Nigel (of suspend2) can just work together on this ?
> It's a shame that much work is wasted in duplicated effort.

It's not duplicated, Nigel knows what need to be done to work together,
if he so desires.

thanks,

greg k-h