Hi!
> > *Users* would not be at disadvantage, but, surprise, there's one thing
> > more important than users. Thats developers, and I can guarantee you
> > that merging 14K lines of code just to delete them half a year later
> > would drive them crazy.
>
> It would more be an ever-changing interface that would drive them crazy. So
> why don't we come up with an agreed method of starting a suspend and
> starting a resume that they can use, without worrying about whether
> they're getting swsusp, uswsusp or Suspend2? /sys/power/state seems the
> obvious choice for this. An additional /sys entry could perhaps be used to
> modify which implementation is used when you echo disk > /sys/power/state
> - something like
>
> # cat /sys/power/disk_method
> swsusp uswsusp suspend2
> # echo uswsusp > /sys/power/disk_method
> # echo > /sys/power/state
>
> Is there a big problem with that, which I've missed?
Well, for _users_ method seems to be clicking "suspend" in KDE. For
more experienced users it is powersave -U. And you are already
distributing script to do suspend... Just hook suspend2 to the same
gui stuff distributions already use.
Besides what you described can't work for uswsusp.
Pavel
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