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

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

Hi,

On Wednesday 08 February 2006 00:02, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > Personally I agree with you on suspend2, I think this is something that
> > > > needed to Just Work yesterday, and every day it doesn't work we are
> > > > losing users... but who am I to talk, I'm not the one who will have to
> > > > maintain it.
> > > 
> > > It does just work in mainline now. If it does not please open bug
> > > account at bugzilla.kernel.org.
> > > 
> > > If mainline swsusp is too slow for you, install uswsusp. If it is
> > > still too slow for you, mail me a patch adding LZW to userland code
> > > (should be easy).
> > 
> > <horrified rebuke>
> > 
> > Pavel!
> > 
> > Responses like this are precisely why you're not the most popular kernel 
> > maintainer. Telling people to use beta (alpha?) code or fix it
> 
> I do not *want* to be the most popular maintainer. That is your place ;-).
> 
> > themselves 
> > (and then have their patches rejected by you) is no way to maintain a part 
> > of the kernel. Stop being a liability instead of an asset!
> 
> Ugh?
> 
> Lee is a programmer. He wants faster swsusp, and improving uswsusp is
> currently best way to get that. It may be alpha/beta quality, but
> someone has to start testing, and Lee should be good for that (played
> with realtime kernels etc...). Actually it is in good enough state
> that I'd like non-programmers to test it, too.

I'd rather like to wait with that until there's a howto. :-)

Greetings,
Rafael
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