Date: Thu, 2 Feb 2006 21:25:27 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Olivier Galibert <galibert@pobox.com>,
       Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.
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On Čt 02-02-06 16:43:19, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:28:15PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Shouldn't the question be "Why are we making this more complicated by moving 
> > it to userspace?"
> 
> Indeed.  It seems that turning the kernel into Hurd is the latest
> fad.

Heh, try reading suspend2.

> One question I'm wondering about though is that 99% of the "suspend
> doesn't work reliably" messages were answered by "it's a driver's
> fault".  I'm rather curious on how moving things to userspace is going
> to fix that.

uswsusp is not going to fix driver's problems, but at least should not
add new problems. It is aimed at solving graphical bars, compression,
encryption etc.
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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