From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750716AbWFZPrR (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:47:17 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750718AbWFZPrR (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:47:17 -0400 Received: from pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com ([205.158.62.125]:46513 "HELO pop5-1.us4.outblaze.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S1750716AbWFZPrQ (ORCPT ); Mon, 26 Jun 2006 11:47:16 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham To: Linux Kernel Mailing List , suspend2-devel@lists.suspend2.net Subject: Suspend2 - Request for review & inclusion in -mm Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2006 01:47:16 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200606270147.16501.ncunningham@linuxmail.org> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi all. I'd like, at long last, to submit Suspend2 for review and inclusion in -mm. All going well, I'll shortly be sending a number of sets of patches, which together represent the whole of suspend2 as it stands at the moment. Those of you who've looked at Suspend2 code before will see that there are far fewer changes outside of kernel/power than there have been in the past. In some cases, this is because we were early adopters of some functionality that has now been merged, and in others because better, less intrusive ways have been found of doing some things. Some of the advantages of suspend2 over swsusp and uswsusp are: - Speed (Asynchronous I/O and readahead for synchronous I/O) - Well tested in a wide range of configurations - Supports multiple swap partitions and files - Supports writing to ordinary files and raw devices. - Userspace helpers for user interface and storage management. - Support for cancelling the suspend at any point while the image is being written (can be disabled) - Can be configured and reconfigured without rebooting. - Scripting support I'm very much part-time on this, so please accept my apologies in advance if I'm slow in replying to responses. A git tree is now available on kernel.org: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/nigelc/suspend2-2.6.git;a=summary Regards, Nigel -- Nigel, Michelle and Alisdair Cunningham 5 Mitchell Street Cobden 3266 Victoria, Australia