Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: what the patches do Re: [RFC 10/15] PM / Hibernate: user, implement user_ops reader | Date | Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:14:36 +0100 |
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On Thursday 25 March 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On 25/03/10 16:30, Pavel Machek wrote: > [...] > > > I have some problems with sws_module_ops interface (handcoded locking > > is too ugly to live), but it is better than I expected. But there may > > be better solution available, one that does not need two interfaces to > > maintain (we can't really get rid of userland interface). What about > > this? > > Just picking up on that bracketed part: Can we flag the userland > interface (and uswsusp) as being planned for eventual removal now... or > at least agree to work toward that?
No, we can't.
> I'm asking because if we're going to make a go of getting the in-kernel > code in much better shape, and we have Rafael, Jiri and I - and you? - > all pulling in the same direction to improve it, there's going to come a > point (hopefully not too far away) where uswsusp is just making life too > difficult, and getting rid of it will be a big help.
We're not dropping user space interfaces used by every distro I know of.
Rafael
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