A bit of history

A bit of history

It is worth remembering that a Suspend2 discussion occured over a year ago on LKML, at which point the maintainers of uswsusp kept pointing out that all that Suspend2 can do, can be done in uswsusp. Over a year later uswsusp still cannot match what Suspend2 can do. Not to mention that you need a PhD to set it up.

A year ago major complaints were that nobody reviewed the code and that there is too much kernel code (which we now see is apparently rubbish), making Suspend2 overly complicated. Now, all that's not the case any more, but Linus still refuses to merge it. Apparently, all three suspend to disk solutions suck - but selecting the best of the three and working from there is not good. Go figure...

In the meantime, most users will still have to rely on the old swsusp, which is, shall we say, less than perfect. Sad...

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