From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S266997AbTGKWrE (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:47:04 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S266998AbTGKWrE (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:47:04 -0400 Received: from smtp1.clear.net.nz ([203.97.33.27]:61360 "EHLO smtp1.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S266997AbTGKWrC (ORCPT ); Fri, 11 Jul 2003 18:47:02 -0400 Date: Sat, 12 Jul 2003 10:45:47 +1200 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: Thoughts wanted on merging Software Suspend enhancements To: Linus Torvalds Cc: Pavel Machek , swsusp-devel , Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <1057963547.3207.22.camel@laptop-linux> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi Linus. As you may know, there has been a lot of work done on the 2.4 version of software suspend. This includes: - async i/o - back out on errors rather than panicing (where possible) - enhancements to refrigerator so it successfully freezes processes even under high load - save a full image rather than freeing just about all the memory first - highmem support - image compression support - swapfile support in progress - nice display - user can abort at any time during suspend (oh, I forgot, I wanted to...) by just pressing Escape - extensive debugging info that doesn't need to be compiled in and can be adjusted during the suspend cycle (very handy for diagnosing issues) I'm wanting to get your thoughts on how we should go about merging it. I don't think these qualify as bug fixes, but current users (and I'm not excluding myself!) would certainly like to see the patch merged sooner rather than later. Would it be a good idea to seek to get Marcello and Andrew to take it into 2.4 and 2.6, and then aim for 2.[7|9]? Regards, Nigel -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand You see, at just the right time, when we were still powerless, Christ died for the ungodly. -- Romans 5:6, NIV.