Re: Reasons to merge suspend2.

[Bill Davidsen]

John Anthony Kazos Jr. wrote:
> > I didn't read your whole post, it's way too long, but I would like to see 
> > your patch in mainline as an option to swsusp.  What would make this 
> > infeasible?
>
> For one thing, Linus said not but yesterday that he doesn't want multiple 
> competing suspend algorithms like this in the kernel at once. (If I parsed 
> his message correctly, he doesn't want any in the kernel, but he's putting 
> up with it because it seems somewhat needed.)

My take on what he said also included avoiding putting critical stuff in 
user space, resulting in problems keeping the whole process consistent.

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