From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757438AbXGBWI3 (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 18:08:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1756102AbXGBWIW (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 18:08:22 -0400 Received: from nigel.suspend2.net ([203.171.70.205]:43852 "EHLO nigel.suspend2.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1756014AbXGBWIV (ORCPT ); Mon, 2 Jul 2007 18:08:21 -0400 From: Nigel Cunningham To: Bill Davidsen Subject: Re: Suspend2 is getting a new name. Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2007 08:08:26 +1000 User-Agent: KMail/1.9.6 Cc: nigel@suspend2.net, LKML References: <200707021730.57066.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> <46894F8F.3070607@tmr.com> In-Reply-To: <46894F8F.3070607@tmr.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; boundary="nextPart1580142.zbKVVbZEyr"; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; micalg=pgp-sha1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Message-Id: <200707030808.26802.nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org --nextPart1580142.zbKVVbZEyr Content-Type: text/plain; charset="cp 850" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Content-Disposition: inline Hi. On Tuesday 03 July 2007 05:18:39 Bill Davidsen wrote: > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > Hi all. > >=20 > > Suspend2's name is changing to "TuxOnIce". > >=20 > > This is for a couple of reasons: > >=20 > > In recent discussions on LKML, the point was made that the word "Suspen= d"=20 is=20 > > confusing. It is used to refer to both suspending to disk and suspendin= g=20 to=20 > > ram. Life will be simpler if we more clearly differentiate the two. > >=20 > > The name Suspend2 came about a couple of years ago when we made the 2.0= =20 > > release and started self-hosting. If we ever get to a 3.0 release, the= =20 name=20 > > could become even more confusing! (And there are already problems with= =20 people=20 > > confusing the name with swsusp and talking about uswsusp as version 3!). > >=20 > > http://www.suspend2.net is still working at the moment, but we'll shift= to=20 > > http://www.tuxonice.net over the next while. The wiki and bugzilla are= =20 > > already done; email will remain on suspend2.net for a little while and = git=20 > > trees will be renamed at the time of the next stable release. > >=20 > I guess this is "good news, bad news" time. The good news is that the=20 > "suspend with working resume" project is still active, the bad news is=20 > that making provisions for long term out of mainline operation sounds as= =20 > if you have no hope of getting this code into the mainline kernel. :-( Let's not turn this into a flamewar, please. This is just a name change,=20 nothing more. As far as I know, the desire on Rafael's part and mine is still to get at=20 least some of the functionality merged. The only reason this isn't happenin= g=20 yet is that we're both busy with other aspects of the work. Rafael is=20 focussing on infrastructure issues, I'm focussing on minimising the diff an= d=20 finishing off cleaning up and adding comments to functions. Regards, Nigel --nextPart1580142.zbKVVbZEyr Content-Type: application/pgp-signature -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQBGiXdaN0y+n1M3mo0RAkChAJ43alSSnC8IMn6f6Ht7JUkEXzgyNgCfcJax elif76rFquQM5s5Z+XT4MvY= =BC8d -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --nextPart1580142.zbKVVbZEyr--