Re: [PATCH 01/23] Hibernation: Split compression support out.

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Fri Oct 01 2010 - 17:29:01 EST


On Monday, September 27, 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> Hi.
>
> On 28/09/10 06:27, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > On Monday, September 27, 2010, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
...
> > This one doesn't really good to me. What I'd prefer would be to have a
> > structure of "swap operations" pointers like ->start(), ->write_data(),
> > ->read_data(), and ->finish() that will point to the functions in this file
> > (if compression is to be used) or to the "old" swap_write_page()/swap_read_page()
> > otherwise. That would reduce the number of the
> > (flags& SF_NOCOMPRESS_MODE) checks quite substantially and will likely result
> > in code that's easier to follow.
>
> Me too. I was heading in that direction, but not doing it in one step.
> I'll happily change that.

I'm still waiting for the reworked patch. If you can submit it in a few days
and it looks good, I'll include it into the pull request for 2.6.37.

Thanks,
Rafael
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