Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Feb 07 2006 - 17:56:38 EST


On Út 07-02-06 19:36:45, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Tuesday 07 February 2006 19:33, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > On Po 06-02-06 22:17:04, Lee Revell wrote:
> > > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 22:01 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
> > > > With uswsusp it'll be more flexible in that you'll be able to use any
> > > > userland process or library to transform the image before storing it, but
> > > > the suspend and resume processes are going to be a lot more complicated.
> > > > For instance, how are you going to tell the kernel that you need the
> > > > uswsusp UI binary, /bin/gzip and /usr/bin/gpg to run after the rest of
> > > > userland has been frozen?
> > >
> > > Unless someone at least gives a rough estimate of 1) what % of users
> > > can't suspend their laptops now and 2) of these, what % are helped by
> > > suspend2, this thread is just handwaving...
> >
> > and 3) for what % of users, suspend2 will actually break it (bugs
> > happen).
> >
> > Anyway it seems to be something like 1) 90% 2) 1% 3) .5%
>
> And the source for your numbers is?....

Educated guess :-).
Pavel

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