Messages in this thread | | | From | Nigel Cunningham <> | Subject | Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: Fix handling of highmem | Date | Wed, 9 Aug 2006 21:52:10 +1000 |
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On Wednesday 09 August 2006 21:38, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > > > Comments welcome. > > > > Thanks for the reminder. I'd forgotten half the reason why I didn't want > > to make Suspend2 into incremental patches! You're a brave man! > > Why does this serve as a reminder? No, it is not easy to merge big > patches to mainline. But it is actually a feature.
It serves as a reminder because it shows (just the description, I mean), how inter-related all the changes that are needed are.
I don't get the "it is actually a feature" bit.
> > while (1) { > > size=$RANDOM * 65536 + 1 > > dd if=/dev/random bs=1 count=$size | patch -p0-b > > make && break > >} > > Is this what you use to generate suspend2 patches? :-)))))
:) Actually, given Greg's OLS keynote, I was wondering if it was what he used to generate them.
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