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

From: Lee Revell
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 05:04:41 EST


On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:39 +0100, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> These "big changes" is something I have a problem with, since it means
> to delay a working suspend/resume in Linux for another
> "short-term" (so
> what does it mean: 1 month? six? twelve?). It is painful to get these
> things to work reliable, I have followed this for nearly 1.5 years.
> And
> again: today there is a working implementation, so why not merge it
> and
> have something today, and then start working on the other things.

It never works that way in practice - if you let broken/suboptimal code
into the kernel then it's a LOT less likely to get fixed later than if
you make fixing it a condition of inclusion because once it's in there's
much less motivation to fix it.

Lee



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