Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: Suspend2 - Request for review & inclusion in -mm

Pavel Machek
2006-06-27T22:24:09Z

On Tue 2006-06-27 09:01:33, Avuton Olrich wrote:
> On 6/27/06, Andreas Mohr <andi@rhlx01.fht-esslingen.de> wrote:
> >Hi,
> >
> >On Tue, Jun 27, 2006 at 07:22:37PM +0400, Brad Campbell wrote:
> >> Pavel Machek wrote:
> >> >>Some of the advantages of suspend2 over swsusp and uswsusp are:
> >> >>
> >> >>- Speed (Asynchronous I/O and readahead for synchronous I/O)
> >> >
> >> >uswsusp should be able to match suspend2's speed. It can do async I/O,
> >> >etc...
> >>
> >> ARGH!
> >>
> >> And the next version of windows will have all the wonderful features that
> >> MacOSX has now so best not upgrade to Mac as you can just wait for the
> >> next version of windows.
> >>
> >> suspend2 has it *now*. It works, it's stable.
>
> I'm not sure it's a reason for it to go in, but the truth is suspend2
> does work in more cases, ime. uswsusp is alpha(?) swsusp doesn't work
> (for me in most cases), suspend-to-ram doesn't work (probably even
> less cases than swsusp), suspend2 works. It's working status for more
> of the userbase should (hopefully) be a concideration.

When swsusp does not work, there's no point trying uswsusp. It is
mostly same code.

suspend-to-ram is a very different animal.
Pavel
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