Messages in this thread | | | From | Jan Rychter <> | Subject | Re: Fix up power managment in 2.6 | Date | Tue, 02 Sep 2003 03:29:51 -0700 |
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>>>>> "Patrick" == Patrick Mochel <mochel@osdl.org>: [...] Patrick> Power management has not worked for a majority of users for a Patrick> long time. It's in dire need of someone with motivation, Patrick> direction, and the time to make it work properly, and get it Patrick> on par with some of our contemporary OSes. I'm trying to be Patrick> that person, and actually fix things in the long run, rather Patrick> than encouraging people to "fix it themselves". [...]
I'd like to throw in some comments from a user's point of view.
I've been using software suspend for quite a long time now. I was happy when Pavel made it work back when he first got to it. I was a bit less happy when it turned out that it doesn't really work all that well. Then I was happy again when Nigel Cunningham put in a *lot* of hard work (which he still does now) and made the 2.4 swsusp code nice and stable. The result of Nigel's work is code that allows me 2-3 weeks of uptime on my laptop with several suspends a day.
In the meantime, the 2.5 version hasn't really gone anywhere interesting. It did not work for me when it was first merged, and it did not work in -test3 either. People reporting problems were mostly told to fix things themselves (which shows a blatant disregard for testers' time, a common pitfall for people that write code).
Being a maintainer IMHO means fixing things, not standing in an ivory "maintainer" tower and shouting at people.
Therefore, I couldn't agree more with Patrick. I am very happy to see that someone actually cares about the code, tries to clean it up and fix things. I hope things _will_ get fixed over time. And I certainly think that Patrick's cleanups and refactoring are better than the constantly broken state that software suspend was in.
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