Re: Suspend2 is getting a new name.

[Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net>]

Hi.

On Tuesday 03 July 2007 05:18:39 Bill Davidsen wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi all.
> > 
> > Suspend2's name is changing to "TuxOnIce".
> > 
> > This is for a couple of reasons:
> > 
> > In recent discussions on LKML, the point was made that the word "Suspend" 
is 
> > confusing. It is used to refer to both suspending to disk and suspending 
to 
> > ram. Life will be simpler if we more clearly differentiate the two.
> > 
> > The name Suspend2 came about a couple of years ago when we made the 2.0 
> > release and started self-hosting. If we ever get to a 3.0 release, the 
name 
> > could become even more confusing! (And there are already problems with 
people 
> > confusing the name with swsusp and talking about uswsusp as version 3!).
> > 
> > http://www.suspend2.net is still working at the moment, but we'll shift to 
> > http://www.tuxonice.net over the next while. The wiki and bugzilla are 
> > already done; email will remain on suspend2.net for a little while and git 
> > trees will be renamed at the time of the next stable release.
> > 
> I guess this is "good news, bad news" time. The good news is that the 
> "suspend with working resume" project is still active, the bad news is 
> that making provisions for long term out of mainline operation sounds as 
> if you have no hope of getting this code into the mainline kernel. :-(

Let's not turn this into a flamewar, please. This is just a name change, 
nothing more.

As far as I know, the desire on Rafael's part and mine is still to get at 
least some of the functionality merged. The only reason this isn't happening 
yet is that we're both busy with other aspects of the work. Rafael is 
focussing on infrastructure issues, I'm focussing on minimising the diff and 
finishing off cleaning up and adding comments to functions.

Regards,

Nigel

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