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

From: Bill Davidsen
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 15:04:36 EST


Matt Mackall wrote:
On Tue, Apr 24, 2007 at 11:29:56PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
We do not want to fragment the testing base, and suspend2 does not
really have any interesting features over uswsusp.

The testing base is already fragmented!

What the current situation means is that you simply never hear from
the people who get fed up with suspend but who manage to get suspend2
working.

I have to feel that having a *working resume* capability is "any interesting features" enough. What you say about "simply never hear from" is unfortunately true.

On 04/25/2007 05:30 PM EDT, Pavel Machek wrote:

>It is not Rafael's fault. Actually it is quite hard to work with
>Nigel, because he implements every feature someone asks for, and wants
>to merge them all :-( . I don't expect to ever agree with Nigel on
>anything important, sorry.

The fact that Pavel thinks giving the users what they want is a problem certainly defines the difference between them, the populist "give them what they want" and the elitist "let's them make do with what I think they should have."

I do respect Pavel for all the stuff he has done and is doing, I wish I could have found a nicer way to say that.

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