Re: suspend2 merge history [was Re: the " 'official' point of view" expressed by kernelnewbies.org regarding reiser4 inclusion]

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Pavel Machek wrote:

On Sun 2006-07-30 15:25:49, Hua Zhong wrote:
I don't _blame_ drivers. I only wanted to say this: "If Nigel knows that some drivers need to be fixed and he has working fixes for these drivers, he should have submitted these fixes for merging instead of just keeping them in suspend2". Period.

If I know of a fix for a driver, I always do my best to make sure the fix will get considered for merging at least. The problem is I'm not a driver expert and I can't provide the fixes myself.
Suspend2 patch is open source. You can always take a look.

swsusp is open source. You can always take a look. And you can always
submit a patch.
But you can't get the patch accepted, that's issue causing all this discussion.

Moreover, if someone claims suspend2 isn't ready for merge, or the

Moreover, if someone claims swsusp is broken, they should attach
bugzilla id.

I'm not exactly an expert, but I don't think suspend-to-ram is more
difficult than suspend-to-disk (probably quite the contrary), and
there are a lot in common.

As you said, you do not know what you are talking about.

That's why people are frustrated. You blow off anyone who tells you the code doesn't work. Do you really think Linus doesn't know what he's talking about when he reported that it didn't work for him? Hua Zhong being "Not an expert" is not the same as not knowing what he's talking about.

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bill davidsen <[email protected]>
 CTO TMR Associates, Inc
 Doing interesting things with small computers since 1979

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