From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752696Ab0CYGLp (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:11:45 -0400 Received: from crca.org.au ([74.207.252.120]:46989 "EHLO crca.org.au" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751840Ab0CYGLo (ORCPT ); Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:11:44 -0400 X-Bogosity: Ham, spamicity=0.000000 Message-ID: <4BAAFED5.6070501@crca.org.au> Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:12:37 +1100 From: Nigel Cunningham User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; U; Linux x86_64; en-US; rv:1.9.1.9pre) Gecko/20100301 Shredder/3.0.4pre MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Pavel Machek CC: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jiri Slaby , jirislaby@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [linux-pm] what the patches do Re: [RFC 10/15] PM / Hibernate: user, implement user_ops reader References: <1269361063-3341-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <1269361063-3341-10-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <20100325053003.GB12935@elf.ucw.cz> <4BAAF7DA.30506@crca.org.au> In-Reply-To: <4BAAF7DA.30506@crca.org.au> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi again. On 25/03/10 16:42, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > On 25/03/10 16:30, Pavel Machek wrote: > [...] > >> I have some problems with sws_module_ops interface (handcoded locking >> is too ugly to live), but it is better than I expected. But there may >> be better solution available, one that does not need two interfaces to >> maintain (we can't really get rid of userland interface). What about >> this? > > Just picking up on that bracketed part: Can we flag the userland > interface (and uswsusp) as being planned for eventual removal now... or > at least agree to work toward that? > > I'm asking because if we're going to make a go of getting the in-kernel > code in much better shape, and we have Rafael, Jiri and I - and you? - > all pulling in the same direction to improve it, there's going to come a I realised after sending this that the " - and you? - " was ambiguous. I wasn't meaning to suggest that you might pull in a different direction, but rather uncertainty as to whether you might help with the effort - it's been a while (AFAIR) since you've done any hibernaton patches. Humble apologies for the ambiguity! Nigel