Re: [RFC] TuxOnIce

On Thu 2009-05-07 19:42:54, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Thursday 07 May 2009, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > I'd like to submit TuxOnIce for review, with a view to seeking to get it
> > > merged, perhaps in 2.6.31 or .32 (depending upon what needs work before
> > > it can be merged) and the willingness of those who matter.
...
> > To summarise disadvantages:
> > 
> > - only core has 8000 LoC
> > - it does stuff that can be easily done in userspace
> >      (and that todays distros _do_ in userspace).
> > - it duplicates uswsusp functionality.
> > - compared to [u]swsusp, it received little testing
> 
> Actually, I see advantages of working together versus fighting flame wars.
> Please stop that, I'm not going to take part in it this time.

Ok, so what do you propose? Merging tuxonice into 2.6.32, resulting in
having swsusp,uswsusp *and* tuxonice to maintain? I hope not.

If we are talking about improving mainline to allow tuxonice
functionality... then yes, that sounds reasonable.
									Pavel
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