Hi!
> >>Pavel, at the PM summit, we agreed to work toward getting Suspend2
> >>merged. I've been working since then on cleaning up the code, splitting
> >>the patches up nicely and so on. In the meantime, you seem to have gone
> >>off on a completely different tangent, going right against what we
> >>agreed then.
> >Sorry about that. At pm summit, I did not know if uswsusp was
> >feasible. Now I'm pretty sure it is (code works and is stable).
>
> Ok, excuse me for butting in.
>
> I would just like to give the point of view of a user.
>
> I have been using suspend2 probably at least once a day for about a year
> now, and I love it. I have had zero cases of data corruption, and it's
> fast, effective, and reliable. I can't say the same about the in-kernel
> swsusp. When I tried it (once), a few months ago:
>
> - 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. (Whatever others
> may say, this /is/ useful, especially when you've forgotten something
> and you're in a hurry and don't have two more minutes to waste waiting
> for a suspend/resume cycle.)
With uswsusp (aka swsusp3), you can do all this in userland. Stop
whining, start hacking... Code is at kernel.org/git/.../linux-sw3.
Pavel
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