Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 20 Feb 2006 14:23:33 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) |
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> Hi. > > On Monday 20 February 2006 21:15, Lee Revell wrote: > > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 11:33 +0100, Matthias Hensler wrote: > > > That is all I > > > complain about, it means throwing away everything that is working, or > > > easy to get it working, and delaying working hibernate support for > > > another time. > > > > But we have not established that the current implementation does not > > work! That's a pretty strong assertion to make with zero evidence. > > ...and that requires defining 'works'. > > If we define it as "writes an image of some part of ram to a swap partition > that can be and does normally get restored on the next boot", then yes, we > have a working version in the existing vanilla kernel. If however you start > talking about multiple swap partitions or swap files or ordinary files, about > reliability or the ability to tune it to fit your system and preferences, > about the responsiveness of the system post resume or the security of the > image (IIRC, encryption support has just been removed from swsusp), about the > ability to get help when you run into trouble or documentation, swsusp > becomes less of a candidate for 'works'.
...so yes, it works, and the rest of features can be implemented in userspace. Feel free to help with documentation or userspace parts. Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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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