Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932407AbWBTJnF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:43:05 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932408AbWBTJnF (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:43:05 -0500 Received: from canadatux.org ([81.169.162.242]:36241 "EHLO zoidberg.canadatux.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932407AbWBTJnE (ORCPT ); Mon, 20 Feb 2006 04:43:04 -0500 Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 10:43:00 +0100 From: Matthias Hensler To: Pavel Machek Cc: Nigel Cunningham , Sebastian Kgler , kernel list , rjw@sisk.pl Subject: Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) Message-ID: <20060220094300.GC19293@kobayashi-maru.wspse.de> Reply-To: Matthias Hensler References: <20060201113710.6320.68289.stgit@localhost.localdomain> <20060211104130.GA28282@kobayashi-maru.wspse.de> <20060218142610.GT3490@openzaurus.ucw.cz> <200602200709.17955.nigel@suspend2.net> <20060219212952.GI15311@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-15 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060219212952.GI15311@elf.ucw.cz> Organization: WSPse (http://www.wspse.de/) X-Gummibears: Bouncing here and there and everywhere X-Face: &Tv]9SsNpb/$w8\G-O%>W02aApFW^P>[x+Upv9xQB!2;iD9Y1-Lz'qlc{+lL2Y>J(u76Jk,cJ@$tP2-M%y?^'jn2J]3C'ss_~"u?kA^X&{]h?O?@*VwgSGob73I9r}&S%ktup0k2!neScg3'HO}PU#Ac>jwNL|P@f|f*sz*cP'hi)/a=6.rc-P1vXarjVXlzClmNfcSy/$4tQz User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 830 Lines: 22 Hi. On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:29:52PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Maybe very little of substance is being done in userspace, but all the > uglyness can stay there. I no longer need LZF in kernel, special > netlink API for progress bar (progress bar naturally lives in > userland), no plugin infrastructure needed, etc. Linux has a whole crypto API in the kernel, so why is it a problem to have LZF there too? About the progress bar: this is already implemented in userspace, the kernel just forwards the progress via netlink to it. Not necessarily ugly I think. Regards, Matthias - 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/