Re: Which is simpler? (Was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Mon Feb 20 2006 - 11:32:19 EST


On Po 20-02-06 11:20:52, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On Mon, Feb 20, 2006 at 05:11:09AM -0500, Lee Revell wrote:
> > On Mon, 2006-02-20 at 10:39 +0100, Matthias Hensler wrote:
> > > These "big changes" is something I have a problem with, since it
> > > means to delay a working suspend/resume in Linux for another
> > > "short-term" (so what does it mean: 1 month? six? twelve?).
> >
> > If you have a big problem with this then ask the developer why he
> > didn't submit it 1 or 6 or 12 months sooner, don't complain to the
> > kernel developers.
>
> Well, that is up to Nigel, but he did spend a lot of time to make
> Suspend 2 clean and acceptable for the mainline first.

As I said.. Nigel is fixing small problems but not the big ones.

> I do not complain that the patch is not inserted as it is. I too see
> the problems and open issues. But that is nothing that cannot be solved.

Nigel is unviling to solve that. I pointed out 8000 lines of code
(>50% of his patch) that can better be done in userspace. I do not
think he's willing to address that.
Pavel
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