Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: swsusp / suspend2 reliability

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> >Why not
> >take the best from both swsusp and suspend2, and get a 
> >nice
> >implementation into the kernel, that works most of the 
> >times !
> 
> Well, this is the ten thousand dollar question - why not 
> indeed?  Pavel says "Problems are in drivers, and 
> drivers are shared", but suspend2 works around this by 
> unloading certain drivers before suspending, and 
> otherwise hacking around the difficulties.  This is, I 
> think, what is meant when suspend2 is said to support 
> scripting.

Well, you do make same hacks with swsusp; powersaved does that for
example.

>  It may not be a pleasing approach from a 
> theoretical standpoint, but it seems to be the only way 

...but as it is not pleasing, it can't go anywhere near mainline.

							Pavel
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