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

From: Lee Revell
Date: Mon Feb 06 2006 - 22:15:15 EST


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...

Lee

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