Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Út 24-01-06 17:20:44, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:14:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
>  > suspending programs are quite closely tied to the kernel. I think it
>  > is reasonable to expect users to have matching version of kernel and
>  > userland-swsusp tools
> 
>     _        _    ____  ____   ____  ____ _   _ _   _ _   _ _   _
>    / \      / \  |  _ \|  _ \ / ___|/ ___| | | | | | | | | | | | |
>   / _ \    / _ \ | |_) | |_) | |  _| |  _| |_| | |_| | |_| | |_| |
>  / ___ \  / ___ \|  _ <|  _ <| |_| | |_| |  _  |  _  |  _  |  _  |
> /_/   \_\/_/   \_\_| \_\_| \_\\____|\____|_| |_|_| |_|_| |_|_| |_|
> 
> Someone please stop this madness..

Nice ascii art :-).

We'll of course try to get the interface right at the first
try. OTOH... if wrong interface is in kernel for a month, I do not
think it is reasonable to keep supporting that wrong interface for a
year before it can be removed. One month of warning should be fair in
such case...
								Pavel

-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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