Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp

From: Nigel Cunningham
Date: Wed Nov 16 2005 - 17:25:44 EST


Hi.

On Thu, 2005-11-17 at 09:05, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > > Please, everyone realize that Nigel's code is not going to be merged
> > > into mainline as it is today. He knows it, and everyone else involved
> > > knows it. Nigel also knows the proper procedure for getting his changes
> > > into mainline, if he so desires, as we all sat in a room last July and
> > > discussed this (lwn.net has a summary somewhere about it too...)
> >
> > Do you mean "as it was in July"? I haven't been sitting on my hands
> > since July :) My wife will testify to that!
> ...
> > I've also split the one patch that most people see into what is
> > currently about 225 smaller patches, each adding only one small part, am
> > writing descriptions for them all and am preparing to build a git tree
> > from it.
>
> I'm not sure that gets suspend2 any closer to merging. 225 small
> patches is still awful lot of code :-(. Now... if something can be
> done in userspace, it probably should. And I'm trying to show that
> suspend2 functionality can indeed be done in userspace.
>
> So... to get 225 patches in, you'll need to explain that
> userland-swsusp can't work. If you can do that, please be nice and do
> it soon, so that I don't waste too much time on userland-swsusp.

I thought Dave already did that.

Regards,

Nigel

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