Messages in this thread |  | | | Date | Sat, 28 Oct 2006 20:04:47 -0400 | | From | Bill Davidsen <> | | Subject | Re: [PATCH] Thaw userspace and kernel space separately. |
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Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > >> Modify process thawing so that we can thaw kernel space without thawing >> userspace, and thaw kernelspace first. This will be useful in later >> patches, where I intend to get swsusp thawing kernel threads only before >> seeking to free memory. >> >> Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@suspend2.net> > > NAK. "May be useful in future" is not good reason to merge it now. (If > you did not want it merged, just mark it so).
I hope Nigel will keep working at it, since low memory machines like old laptops would benefit from suspend are a reality. It can be kept as a separate patch somewhere, like suspend2, which people can patch in to enhance the example code currently in the kernel.
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