Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 7 Jul 2006 21:42:09 +0000 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: swsusp / suspend2 reliability |
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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.
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