Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Po 06-02-06 22:17:04, Lee Revell wrote:
> On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 22:01 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > With uswsusp it'll be more flexible in that you'll be able to use any
> > userland process or library to transform the image before storing it, but
> > the suspend and resume processes are going to be a lot more complicated.
> > For instance, how are you going to tell the kernel that you need the
> > uswsusp UI binary, /bin/gzip and /usr/bin/gpg to run after the rest of
> > userland has been frozen?
> 
> Unless someone at least gives a rough estimate of 1) what % of users
> can't suspend their laptops now and 2) of these, what % are helped by
> suspend2, this thread is just handwaving...

and 3) for what % of users, suspend2 will actually break it (bugs
happen).

Anyway it seems to be something like 1) 90% 2) 1% 3) .5%

								Pavel
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