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

[Matthias Hensler <matthias@wspse.de>]

Hi.

On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:29:52PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Maybe very little of substance is being done in userspace, but all the
> uglyness can stay there. I no longer need LZF in kernel, special
> netlink API for progress bar (progress bar naturally lives in
> userland), no plugin infrastructure needed, etc.

Linux has a whole crypto API in the kernel, so why is it a problem to
have LZF there too?

About the progress bar: this is already implemented in userspace, the
kernel just forwards the progress via netlink to it. Not necessarily
ugly I think.

Regards,
Matthias
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