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SubjectRe: [Suspend2-devel] Re: swsusp / suspend2 reliability
Hi!

> >Why not
> >take the best from both swsusp and suspend2, and get a
> >nice
> >implementation into the kernel, that works most of the
> >times !
>
> Well, this is the ten thousand dollar question - why not
> indeed? Pavel says "Problems are in drivers, and
> drivers are shared", but suspend2 works around this by
> unloading certain drivers before suspending, and
> otherwise hacking around the difficulties. This is, I
> think, what is meant when suspend2 is said to support
> scripting.

Well, you do make same hacks with swsusp; powersaved does that for
example.

> It may not be a pleasing approach from a
> theoretical standpoint, but it seems to be the only way

...but as it is not pleasing, it can't go anywhere near mainline.

Pavel
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