Date: Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:30:56 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net>
Cc: Lee Revell <rlrevell@joe-job.com>, Matthias Hensler <matthias@wspse.de>,
       Sebastian Kgler <sebas@kde.org>,
       kernel list <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, rjw@sisk.pl
Subject: Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)
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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?

I do not trust you to be an exception, sorry. Your behaviour up to now
also suggests you will not be.
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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