Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030232AbWBGW6I (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:58:08 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030234AbWBGW54 (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:57:56 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:54931 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030232AbWBGW5y (ORCPT ); Tue, 7 Feb 2006 17:57:54 -0500 Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 23:57:34 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Lee Revell , Jim Crilly , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , suspend2-devel@lists.suspend2.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) Message-ID: <20060207225734.GC2753@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060201113710.6320.68289.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <1139282224.2041.48.camel@mindpipe> <20060207093317.GB1742@elf.ucw.cz> <200602071936.52245.nigel@suspend2.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit In-Reply-To: <200602071936.52245.nigel@suspend2.net> 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: 1417 Lines: 34 On ?t 07-02-06 19:36:45, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 19:33, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Po 06-02-06 22:17:04, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 22:01 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > > > > With uswsusp it'll be more flexible in that you'll be able to use any > > > > userland process or library to transform the image before storing it, but > > > > the suspend and resume processes are going to be a lot more complicated. > > > > For instance, how are you going to tell the kernel that you need the > > > > uswsusp UI binary, /bin/gzip and /usr/bin/gpg to run after the rest of > > > > userland has been frozen? > > > > > > Unless someone at least gives a rough estimate of 1) what % of users > > > can't suspend their laptops now and 2) of these, what % are helped by > > > suspend2, this thread is just handwaving... > > > > and 3) for what % of users, suspend2 will actually break it (bugs > > happen). > > > > Anyway it seems to be something like 1) 90% 2) 1% 3) .5% > > And the source for your numbers is?.... Educated guess :-). Pavel -- Web maintainer for suspend.sf.net (www.sf.net/projects/suspend) wanted... - 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/