Re: swsusp / suspend2 reliability

Alon Bar-Lev
2006-07-07T21:10:41Z

On 7/7/06, Hua Zhong <hzhong@gmail.com> wrote:
> Greg had a good article on LWN: http://lwn.net/Articles/189467/. There you could find a more painful truth. You know what the real
> reason is that suspend2 couldn't get merged? Not Nigel, not Pavel, but Linus, because he personally doesn't care. So if you want to
> have a high-quality suspend-to-disk, your best bet is to convince Linus to use it. :-)
>

True.
That's right.
In the past someone called it a lack of leadership...

But reading the references you introduced, I've first realized in how
deep problem we, the user community who want to use suspend-to-disk
and not suspend-to-ram, are.

It is so pity that the whole suspend (ram AND disk) process is not
addressed as a whole... Just because Linus does not care.

And if suspend-to-disk is more complex, it should be solved first,
since suspend-to-ram can be a subset of the process (Although people
in the past dismissed this claim... :( ).

So I guess we will continue to use suspend2 for a long while... Since
at least someone cares, and have a vision reacher than hay I can do
this in userspace.

Best Regards,
Alon Bar-Lev.