Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 6 Oct 2005 01:00:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: [swsusp] separate snapshot functionality to separate file |
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On Čt 06-10-05 00:57:27, Pavel Machek wrote: > On Čt 06-10-05 00:54:19, Lorenzo Colitti wrote: > > Pavel Machek wrote: > > >>- It was dog slow because it doesn't use compression > > >>- Even though it's dog slow, it doesn't save all RAM > > >> - Therefore the machine is dog slow after resume > > >>- It doesn't have a decent UI > > >>- There is no way to abort suspend once it's started. [...] > > > > > >With uswsusp (aka swsusp3), you can do all this in userland. Stop > > >whining, start hacking... Code is at kernel.org/git/.../linux-sw3. > > > > But that was exactly my point: there's no need to hack! > > > > The code is there. It's well tested, fast, stable, and does what users > > need. It's called suspend2. Why work on yet another implementation > > instead of just merging that? > > Most of that code does not belong it kernel. It can't be "just > merged". If we had nice "vi" implementation in kernel, we'd have to > drop it and start again in userland. This is similar.
To say it more nicely.
"Cool, so you have done 100% of work and now it is stable, fast and tested. You only need to do 200% more work to get it merged".
Merging into kernel is not easy, sorry. Pavel -- if you have sharp zaurus hardware you don't need... you know my address - 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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