Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp
From: Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com>
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To: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Cc: Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>, "Gross, Mark" <mark.gross@intel.com>,
       Dave Jones <DaveJ@redhat.com>,
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Hi.

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:05, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > Please, everyone realize that Nigel's code is not going to be merged
> > > into mainline as it is today.  He knows it, and everyone else involved
> > > knows it.  Nigel also knows the proper procedure for getting his changes
> > > into mainline, if he so desires, as we all sat in a room last July and
> > > discussed this (lwn.net has a summary somewhere about it too...)
> > 
> > Do you mean "as it was in July"? I haven't been sitting on my hands
> > since July :)  My wife will testify to that!
> ...
> > I've also split the one patch that most people see into what is
> > currently about 225 smaller patches, each adding only one small part, am
> > writing descriptions for them all and am preparing to build a git tree
> > from it.
> 
> I'm not sure that gets suspend2 any closer to merging. 225 small
> patches is still awful lot of code :-(. Now... if something can be
> done in userspace, it probably should. And I'm trying to show that
> suspend2 functionality can indeed be done in userspace.
> 
> So... to get 225 patches in, you'll need to explain that
> userland-swsusp can't work. If you can do that, please be nice and do
> it soon, so that I don't waste too much time on userland-swsusp.

I thought Dave already did that.

Regards,

Nigel

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