Re: [Suspend2][ 0/9] Extents support.

Pavel Machek
2006-06-28T21:36:23Z

Hi!

> Pavel wants everything in userspace. Nigel wants everything but the
> chrome in kernelspace. Other kernels maintainers are split on the
> issue, or don't care apart from "it should have been working for
> years, damnit". Andrew plainly said he doesn't know what's best, and
> Linus seems to be very careful not to talk about it.
>
> What should have happened is that suspend2 should have been merged
> years ago, and then now transiting more of it to userspace or not
> could be experimented, starting on a decently working base. Pavel's
> NIH-ing prevented that though.
>
> In any case, don't use software suspend on a machine with data you
> care about, and especially not uswsusp. Side effect of userspace code
> is that nobody from outside the project reviews it, and it's way too
> young to have any kind of confidence in it.

Well, swsusp is *way* better reviewed than suspend2, because it is
<10% of code size, and it is in kernel already (plus Rafael did the
reviews/rewriting).

Your point about uswsusp is "interesting", but notice that noone ever
reviewed suspend2, either. So... if you care about your data, swsusp
is currently the _safest_ way to go. (It may not have the _nicest_
progress indication :-).
Pavel
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