Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S265834AbTGLNq3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:46:29 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S265835AbTGLNq3 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:46:29 -0400 Received: from smtp-out2.iol.cz ([194.228.2.87]:17617 "EHLO smtp-out2.iol.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S265834AbTGLNq1 (ORCPT ); Sat, 12 Jul 2003 09:46:27 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 16:00:57 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Linus Torvalds , swsusp-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements Message-ID: <20030712140057.GC284@elf.ucw.cz> References: <1057963547.3207.22.camel@laptop-linux> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1057963547.3207.22.camel@laptop-linux> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.3i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1404 Lines: 45 Hi! > Hi Linus. > Well, you probably did want Linus to answer, but I see some new stuff here. > As you may know, there has been a lot of work done on the 2.4 version of > software suspend. This includes: > > - async i/o > - back out on errors rather than panicing (where possible) If those panic()s happen for the users, then this is bugfix. > - enhancements to refrigerator so it successfully freezes processes even > under high load This is bugfix. > - save a full image rather than freeing just about all the memory first > - highmem support > - image compression support > - swapfile support in progress This seems extremely hard to do right. If you can do it right and not rewrite half of kernel, that's okay, but I don't think you can do that. > - nice display > - user can abort at any time during suspend (oh, I forgot, I wanted > to...) by just pressing Escape That seems like missfeature. We don't want joe random user that is at the console to prevent suspend by just pressing Escape. Maybe magic key to do that would be acceptable... Pavel -- When do you have a heart between your knees? [Johanka's followup: and *two* hearts?] - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/