Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

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Hi!

> >>I didn't read your whole post, it's way too long, but I would like to see
> >>your patch in mainline as an option to swsusp.  What would make this
> >>infeasible?
> >
> >For one thing, Linus said not but yesterday that he doesn't want multiple
> >competing suspend algorithms like this in the kernel at once. (If I parsed
> >his message correctly, he doesn't want any in the kernel, but he's putting
> >up with it because it seems somewhat needed.)
> 
> Would it be a feasible solution to have a very minimal and generic software 
> suspend in the kernel, and then various userspace implementations could 
> take care of this? 

Yes please. If you want suspend-over-nfs or whatever, just add it to
the userspace; we have enough support in kernel now.
									Pavel
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