Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030417AbVJEW6H (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:58:07 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030418AbVJEW6G (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:58:06 -0400 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:27305 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030417AbVJEW6F (ORCPT ); Wed, 5 Oct 2005 18:58:05 -0400 Date: Thu, 6 Oct 2005 00:57:27 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Lorenzo Colitti Cc: Nigel Cunningham , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Andrew Morton , Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: [swsusp] separate snapshot functionality to separate file Message-ID: <20051005225727.GE22781@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20051002231332.GA2769@elf.ucw.cz> <200510032339.08217.rjw@sisk.pl> <20051003231715.GA17458@elf.ucw.cz> <200510041711.13408.rjw@sisk.pl> <20051004205334.GC18481@elf.ucw.cz> <1128465272.6611.75.camel@localhost> <20051005084141.GB22034@elf.ucw.cz> <434443D9.3010501@colitti.com> <20051005224418.GA22781@elf.ucw.cz> <4344599B.7060308@colitti.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <4344599B.7060308@colitti.com> 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: 1242 Lines: 29 On Čt 06-10-05 00:54:19, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > Pavel Machek wrote: > >>- It was dog slow because it doesn't use compression > >>- Even though it's dog slow, it doesn't save all RAM > >> - Therefore the machine is dog slow after resume > >>- It doesn't have a decent UI > >>- There is no way to abort suspend once it's started. [...] > > > >With uswsusp (aka swsusp3), you can do all this in userland. Stop > >whining, start hacking... Code is at kernel.org/git/.../linux-sw3. > > But that was exactly my point: there's no need to hack! > > The code is there. It's well tested, fast, stable, and does what users > need. It's called suspend2. Why work on yet another implementation > instead of just merging that? Most of that code does not belong it kernel. It can't be "just merged". If we had nice "vi" implementation in kernel, we'd have to drop it and start again in userland. This is similar. 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/