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

Jens Axboe
2006-06-27T08:21:19Z

On Tue, Jun 27 2006, Greg KH wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 09:59:06AM +0200, Jens Axboe wrote:
> > Now I haven't followed the suspend2 vs swsusp debate very closely, but
> > it seems to me that your biggest problem with getting this merged is
> > getting consensus on where exactly this is going. Nobody wants two
> > different suspend modules in the kernel. So there are two options -
> > suspend2 is deemed the way to go, and it gets merged and replaces
> > swsusp. Or the other way around - people like swsusp more, and you are
> > doomed to maintain suspend2 outside the tree.
>
> Actually, there's a third option that is looking like the way forward,
> doing all of this from userspace and having no suspend-to-disk in the
> kernel tree at all.

Yeah, but isn't that already in progress and swsusp being migrated that
way? So really option #2.

> Pavel and others have a working implementation and are slowly moving
> toward adding all of the "bright and shiny" features that is in suspend2
> to it (encryption, progress screens, abort by pressing a key, etc.) so
> that there is no loss of functionality.
>
> So I don't really see the future of suspend2 because of this...

Well, it sure looks slim..

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Jens Axboe