From: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Organization: Suspend2.net
To: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>
Subject: Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)
Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 20:38:15 +1000
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Hi.

On Monday 20 February 2006 20:06, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:39 +0100, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> > These "big changes" is something I have a problem with, since it means
> > to delay a working suspend/resume in Linux for another
> > "short-term" (so
> > what does it mean: 1 month? six? twelve?). It is painful to get these
> > things to work reliable, I have followed this for nearly 1.5 years.
> > And
> > again: today there is a working implementation, so why not merge it
> > and
> > have something today, and then start working on the other things.
>
> It never works that way in practice - if you let broken/suboptimal code
> into the kernel then it's a LOT less likely to get fixed later than if
> you make fixing it a condition of inclusion because once it's in there's
> much less motivation to fix it.

I can be an exception, can't I?

Regards,

Nigel
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