Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 2 Feb 2006 15:14:24 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support. |
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Hi!
> > Any technical reasons why suspend modules shouldn't be in userspace? I > > can understand that you're not keen on redoing them but that's not an > > argument for inclusion in the mainline. > > They're using cryptoapi to do the compression and encryption, and bio to do > the I/O. Moving this to userspace will add extra complexity and of course
You are mostly using LZW, not supported by cryptoapi, anyway.
> slow down the process.
Slowdown will not be measurable, syscalls are cheap.
> Shouldn't the question be "Why are we making this more complicated by moving > it to userspace?"
Because thats how the kernel works. We do not put random stuff into kernel because someone happened to code it for kernelspace first. It helps us with long-term sanity. Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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/
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