Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> > Current design is:
> 
> Broken. Yes. I've tried to tell you.

Ok.

...

> It's worse than just confusing, it's *idiotic*.
> 
> It _can_ work in practice, but
>  - we have pretty damn solid evidence that it doesn't work all that often 
>    in practice
>  - the fact that something *can* be done the stupid way is in no way an 
>    argument that it *should* be done the stupid way.
> 
> I claim that the current STD is *stupid*. Yes, it can work. But that 
> doesn't make it less stupid.

Good. So you understand how it works.

> What's your argument? Your argument seems to be that it's not stupid, 
> because it can work. Can't you see that that simply isn't an
> argument at 

I tried keeping module_init/thaw/resume similar code, so that driver
authors can debug suspend-to-disk, cross their fingers, and have
suspend-to-ram work, too.

Now, perhaps enough people do std/str these days so this is not
important any longer... lets hope so.
								Pavel
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