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

    On Tuesday 07 February 2006 13:13, Lee Revell wrote:
    > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 22:01 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
    > > On 02/06/06 08:19:02PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
    > > > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 19:59 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote:
    > > > > I guess reasonable is a subjective term. For instance, I've seen
    > > > > quite a few people vehemently against adding new ioctls to the
    > > > > kernel and yet you'll be adding quite a few for /dev/snapshot. I'm
    > > > > just of the same mind as Nigel in that it makes the most sense to
    > > > > me that the majority of the suspend/hibernation process to be in
    > > > > the kernel.
    > > >
    > > > No one is saying that ANY new ioctls are bad, just that the KISS
    > > > principle of engineering dictates that it's bad design to use ioctls
    > > > where a simple read/write to a sysfs file will do.
    > >
    > > I understand that, but shouldn't the KISS principle also be applied to
    > > the user interface of a feature?
    >
    > Personally I agree with you on suspend2, I think this is something that
    > needed to Just Work yesterday, and every day it doesn't work we are
    > losing users... but who am I to talk, I'm not the one who will have to
    > maintain it.

    Well, I will have to maintain it, and I'm perfectly willing to. I only
    started to work on it in the first place because I wanted to use it, so I
    have a vested interest in keeping it working. So... even if we end up
    pulling it out in place of a userspace solution, I really like the idea of
    putting it in at least until uswsusp is up to speed (provided it didn't
    given Andrew and/or Linus a hernia in the process).

    To avoid the backwards compatability issues, we can plan ahead now,
    defining something like I suggested in another email earlier in the day.

    Regards,

    Nigel
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