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

[Pavel Machek]

On Po 20-02-06 10:43:00, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> Hi.
> 
> On Sun, Feb 19, 2006 at 10:29:52PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Maybe very little of substance is being done in userspace, but all the
> > uglyness can stay there. I no longer need LZF in kernel, special
> > netlink API for progress bar (progress bar naturally lives in
> > userland), no plugin infrastructure needed, etc.
> 
> Linux has a whole crypto API in the kernel, so why is it a problem to
> have LZF there too?

Because it is not needed there?

> About the progress bar: this is already implemented in userspace, the
> kernel just forwards the progress via netlink to it. Not necessarily
> ugly I think.

Look at the code.
							Pavel

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