Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030470AbVIOHh5 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:37:57 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030468AbVIOHh4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:37:56 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:17354 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030470AbVIOHh4 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Sep 2005 03:37:56 -0400 Date: Thu, 15 Sep 2005 09:37:44 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List , Linux-pm mailing list Subject: Re: [linux-pm] swsusp3: push image reading/writing into userspace Message-ID: <20050915073744.GA2725@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20050914223206.GA2376@elf.ucw.cz> <1126749596.3987.5.camel@localhost> <20050915063753.GA2691@elf.ucw.cz> <1126768581.3987.31.camel@localhost> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1126768581.3987.31.camel@localhost> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1767 Lines: 44 Hi! > > > > Here's prototype code for swsusp3. It seems to work for me, but don't > > > > try it... yet. Code is very ugly at places, sorry, I know and will fix > > > > it. This is just proof that it can be done, and that it can be done > > > > without excessive ammount of code. > > > > > > No comments on the code sorry. Instead I want to ask, could you please > > > find a different name? swsusp3 is going to make people think that it's > > > Suspend2 redesigned. Since there hasn't been a swsusp2 (so far as I > > > know), how about using that name instead? At least then we'll clearly > > > differentiate the two implementations and you won't confuse/irritate > > > users. > > > > swsusp2 can't be used, it is already "taken" by suspend2 (25000 hits > > on google). I was actually hoping that you would release suspend4 > > (using swsusp3 infrastructure) :-). > > You could reclaim it. There are 10 times as many hits (239,000) for > suspend2, and I've never wanted it to be called swsusp2 anyway :). As > for suspend4, at the moment, I'm not planning on ever progressing beyond > 2.x. Sorry, have to ask... "not planning on progressing" == version number stays "2" no matter what changes, or "not planning on progressing" == not plan to use swsusp3/uswsusp infrastructure? > > I guess I could call it "uswsusp". > > u as in micro? Originaly I thought about it as "userland-swsusp", but micro-swsusp sounds nice, too. Pavel -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address - 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/