From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1757220AbXD0UiI (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:38:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757219AbXD0UiI (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:38:08 -0400 Received: from mail.tmr.com ([64.65.253.246]:48711 "EHLO gaimboi.tmr.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1757220AbXD0UiH (ORCPT ); Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:38:07 -0400 Message-ID: <46325F89.408@tmr.com> Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 16:39:37 -0400 From: Bill Davidsen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux i686; en-US; rv:1.8.0.8) Gecko/20061105 SeaMonkey/1.0.6 MIME-Version: 1.0 Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel To: "John Anthony Kazos Jr." CC: Al Boldi , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Reasons to merge suspend2. References: <200704251551.38373.a1426z@gawab.com> In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote: >> I didn't read your whole post, it's way too long, but I would like to see >> your patch in mainline as an option to swsusp. What would make this >> infeasible? > > For one thing, Linus said not but yesterday that he doesn't want multiple > competing suspend algorithms like this in the kernel at once. (If I parsed > his message correctly, he doesn't want any in the kernel, but he's putting > up with it because it seems somewhat needed.) My take on what he said also included avoiding putting critical stuff in user space, resulting in problems keeping the whole process consistent. -- Bill Davidsen "We have more to fear from the bungling of the incompetent than from the machinations of the wicked." - from Slashdot