Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Thu Feb 02 2006 - 15:23:49 EST


On Ät 02-02-06 16:43:19, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> On Thu, Feb 02, 2006 at 10:28:15PM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Shouldn't the question be "Why are we making this more complicated by moving
> > it to userspace?"
>
> Indeed. It seems that turning the kernel into Hurd is the latest
> fad.

Heh, try reading suspend2.

> One question I'm wondering about though is that 99% of the "suspend
> doesn't work reliably" messages were answered by "it's a driver's
> fault". I'm rather curious on how moving things to userspace is going
> to fix that.

uswsusp is not going to fix driver's problems, but at least should not
add new problems. It is aimed at solving graphical bars, compression,
encryption etc.
Pavel
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Thanks, Sharp!
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