Hi. On Wednesday 28 June 2006 08:19, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > Hi, > > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 11:35, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > On Tuesday 27 June 2006 19:26, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > > > > Now I haven't followed the suspend2 vs swsusp debate very closely, > > > > > but it seems to me that your biggest problem with getting this > > > > > merged is getting consensus on where exactly this is going. Nobody > > > > > wants two different suspend modules in the kernel. So there are two > > > > > options - suspend2 is deemed the way to go, and it gets merged and > > > > > replaces swsusp. Or the other way around - people like swsusp more, > > > > > and you are doomed to maintain suspend2 outside the tree. > > > > > > > > Generally, I agree, although my understanding of Rafael and Pavel's > > > > mindset is that swsusp is a dead dog and uswsusp is the way they want > > > > to see things go. swsusp is only staying for backwards compatability. > > > > If that's the case, perhaps we can just replace swsusp with Suspend2 > > > > and let them have their existing interface for uswsusp. Still not > > > > ideal, I agree, but it would be progress. > > > > > > Well, ususpend needs some core functionality to be provided by the > > > kernel, like freezing/thawing processes (this is also used by the STR), > > > snapshotting the system memory. These should be shared with the > > > in-kernel suspend, be it swsusp or suspend2. > > > > If I modify suspend2 so that from now on it replaces swsusp, using > > noresume, resume= and echo disk > /sys/power/state in a way that's > > backward compatible with swsusp and doesn't interfere with uswsusp > > support, would you be happy? IIRC, Pavel has said in the past he wishes > > I'd just do that, but he's not you of course. > > That depends on how it's done. For sure, I wouldn't like it to be done in > the "everything at once" manner. I'm not sure I get what you're saying. Do you mean you'd prefer them to coexist for a time in mainline? If so, I'd point out that suspend2 uses different parameters at the moment precisely so they can coexist, so that wouldn't be any change. Regards, Nigel -- See http://www.suspend2.net for Howtos, FAQs, mailing lists, wiki and bugzilla info.
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