Hi, On Tuesday, 3 July 2007 00:08, Nigel Cunningham wrote: > Hi. > > On Tuesday 03 July 2007 05:18:39 Bill Davidsen wrote: > > Nigel Cunningham wrote: > > > Hi all. > > > > > > Suspend2's name is changing to "TuxOnIce". > > > > > > This is for a couple of reasons: > > > > > > In recent discussions on LKML, the point was made that the word "Suspend" > is > > > confusing. It is used to refer to both suspending to disk and suspending > to > > > ram. Life will be simpler if we more clearly differentiate the two. > > > > > > The name Suspend2 came about a couple of years ago when we made the 2.0 > > > release and started self-hosting. If we ever get to a 3.0 release, the > name > > > could become even more confusing! (And there are already problems with > people > > > confusing the name with swsusp and talking about uswsusp as version 3!). > > > > > > http://www.suspend2.net is still working at the moment, but we'll shift > > > to > > > http://www.tuxonice.net over the next while. The wiki and bugzilla are > > > already done; email will remain on suspend2.net for a little while and > > > git > > > trees will be renamed at the time of the next stable release. > > > > > I guess this is "good news, bad news" time. The good news is that the > > "suspend with working resume" project is still active, the bad news is > > that making provisions for long term out of mainline operation sounds as > > if you have no hope of getting this code into the mainline kernel. :-( > > Let's not turn this into a flamewar, please. This is just a name change, > nothing more. > > As far as I know, the desire on Rafael's part and mine is still to get at > least some of the functionality merged. The only reason this isn't happening > yet is that we're both busy with other aspects of the work. Rafael is > focussing on infrastructure issues, I'm focussing on minimising the diff and > finishing off cleaning up and adding comments to functions.
That's correct, thanks for saying this! My first target is to introduce a framework allowing drivers to have different callbacks for hibernation and suspend. Unfortunately, that turned out to require quite a lot of work - and time - to do. Greetings, Rafael -- "Premature optimization is the root of all evil." - Donald Knuth - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
