Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Wed Jan 25 2006 - 07:19:03 EST


On St 25-01-06 00:35:38, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> On Tuesday, 24 January 2006 22:13, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > This patch introduces a user space interface for swsusp.
> >
> > How will we know if/when this feature is ready for mainline? What criteria
> > can we use to judge that?
>
> I think when we are able to demonstrate that it allows us to do more than
> the current built-in swsusp in terms of performance, security etc. Of course
> we'll need some userland utilities for this purpose.
>
> > Will you be developing and long-term maintaining the userspace tools?
>
> Yes.
>
> > Is it your expectation/hope that distros will migrate onto using them? etc.
>
> I think they'll find the interface useful. I've been using it for a couple of
> weeks now and it really allowed me to do some tricks that are just impossible
> with the current implementation.

Interesting... what tricks? Where is the latest code? [On a related
note, I should probably give you suspend.sf.net account. Do you
already have login on sourceforge?]
Pavel
--
Thanks, Sharp!
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