Re: suspend2 merge

Am Mittwoch 25 April 2007 schrieb Linus Torvalds:

And that's a *fundamental* problem. If the STD people cannot even
realize that they have less to do with "suspend" than to "reboot", how
do you ever expect them to get anything to work, and not affect other
things negatively?

Yeah, I'm down on it. I'm down on it because every person involved with
the whole STD thing seems to have basically zero taste, and a total
inability to work with anybody else.

Hello Linus!

I am no kernel developer. But I understand what you are trying to tell
here.

I agree that suspend to ram and snapshot should be handled differently by
drivers. And unlike schedulers - whether it be I/O or process related
ones - I think it should be quite easy to settle and decide on *one*
implementation for each feature. It least it doesn't look as difficult as
deciding on a scheduler which works for all the different workloads to
me.

I do not believe that the reasons preventing this to happen until now are
of pure technical nature.

I think snapshotting is a very important feature. I would patch it into my
kernels if it was removed. But then I am using suspend2 anyway.

Regards,
--
Martin 'Helios' Steigerwald - http://www.Lichtvoll.de
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