Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 26 Apr 2007 17:06:31 -0400 | From | Theodore Tso <> | Subject | Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy) |
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On Thu, Apr 26, 2007 at 08:56:48AM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > > On Thu, 26 Apr 2007, Pavel Machek wrote: > > > > Yes, probably will. The other option is to break existing 32-bit > > userspace, which is a bit more common AFAICT. > > And *this* is why kernel/userspace things simply should not be done. > > It's simply better to do things entirely in the kernel. Because you add > bugs and complications otherwise, and doing it in the kernel allows you > to just switch things around. > > As it is, it appears that user-space suspend is just broken whichever way > we turn.
Well, in that case maybe suspend2 should be very seriously considered, since it has the features of uswsusp --- basic features which every single Microsoft and MacOSX user are used to like, like progress bars --- and it's all done in the kernel.
- Ted
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