Re: suspend2 review [was Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re:[Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)]

[Lee Revell]

On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 18:05 +0100, Olivier Galibert wrote:
> Pavel, if you mean that the userspace code will not be reviewed to
> standards the kernel code is, kill uswsusp _NOW_ before it does too
> much damage.  Unreliable suspend eats filesystems for breakfast.  The
> other userspace components of the kernels services are either optional
> (udev) or not that important (alsa).
> 

Why is sound less important than suspending, or networking, or any other
subsystem?  This is an insult to everyone who worked long and hard to
get decent sound support on Linux.

This attitude is why many distro's sound support is godawful.  Sometimes
I suspect they are testing on machines without speakers connected.

Lee

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