Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 29 Nov 2004 23:34:37 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Suspend 2 merge |
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Hi!
> > >>>:> But not everyone who uses 2.6.9 uses swsusp. :> > > > > and not everyone who downloads suspend2 uses it ;-) > > Yes... I'd say the relative percentage would be much higher, though.
Agreed.
> > > change a parameter or forcing them to do an ls in /dev with obscure > > > parameters (to get the major and minor numbers) when they already know > > > they want /dev/sda1 isn't user friendly. Obviously user friendliness is > > > > This can easily be done by a userspace helper. You do use the > > (userspace) X server to display your GUI, don't you? > > No. Not at all. All of userspace is well and truly wedged in a block of > ice by then.
I think that was not what Stefan wanted to say.
> Regarding acceptance, there's no point in getting it accepted into the > kernel if we end up with something that's user-unfriendly. I think it > will help a lot if we agree that suspend does need to blur the lines > between kernel and userspace a little, in the interests of providing > software that is superior.
I guess we'll have to agree to disagree here. I do not think suspend is special enough to blur the lines... Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl! - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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