From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Re: what the patches do Re: [RFC 10/15] PM / Hibernate: user, implement user_ops reader Date: Thu, 25 Mar 2010 17:12:37 +1100 Message-ID: <4BAAFED5.6070501__28008.1160286956$1269497677$gmane$org@crca.org.au> References: <1269361063-3341-1-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <1269361063-3341-10-git-send-email-jslaby@suse.cz> <20100325053003.GB12935@elf.ucw.cz> <4BAAF7DA.30506@crca.org.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <4BAAF7DA.30506@crca.org.au> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.linux-foundation.org To: Pavel Machek Cc: linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, Jiri Slaby , jirislaby@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi again. On 25/03/10 16:42, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > On 25/03/10 16:30, Pavel Machek wrote: > [...] > >> I have some problems with sws_module_ops interface (handcoded locking >> is too ugly to live), but it is better than I expected. But there may >> be better solution available, one that does not need two interfaces to >> maintain (we can't really get rid of userland interface). What about >> this? > > Just picking up on that bracketed part: Can we flag the userland > interface (and uswsusp) as being planned for eventual removal now... or > at least agree to work toward that? > > I'm asking because if we're going to make a go of getting the in-kernel > code in much better shape, and we have Rafael, Jiri and I - and you? - > all pulling in the same direction to improve it, there's going to come a I realised after sending this that the " - and you? - " was ambiguous. I wasn't meaning to suggest that you might pull in a different direction, but rather uncertainty as to whether you might help with the effort - it's been a while (AFAIR) since you've done any hibernaton patches. Humble apologies for the ambiguity! Nigel