Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 7 Feb 2006 23:57:34 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.) |
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On Út 07-02-06 19:36:45, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Tuesday 07 February 2006 19:33, Pavel Machek wrote: > > On Po 06-02-06 22:17:04, Lee Revell wrote: > > > On Mon, 2006-02-06 at 22:01 -0500, Jim Crilly wrote: > > > > With uswsusp it'll be more flexible in that you'll be able to use any > > > > userland process or library to transform the image before storing it, but > > > > the suspend and resume processes are going to be a lot more complicated. > > > > For instance, how are you going to tell the kernel that you need the > > > > uswsusp UI binary, /bin/gzip and /usr/bin/gpg to run after the rest of > > > > userland has been frozen? > > > > > > Unless someone at least gives a rough estimate of 1) what % of users > > > can't suspend their laptops now and 2) of these, what % are helped by > > > suspend2, this thread is just handwaving... > > > > and 3) for what % of users, suspend2 will actually break it (bugs > > happen). > > > > Anyway it seems to be something like 1) 90% 2) 1% 3) .5% > > And the source for your numbers is?....
Educated guess :-). Pavel
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