“Patrick Mochel offered a series of twenty-five patches to the
lkml, aiming to merge his pmdisk power managment work back into the
swsusp software suspend code base from where it originally came. He
begins with a little history:“‘About a year ago, I became frustrated with the
process of trying to merge a bunch of cleanups that I had done to
the swsusp (suspend-to-disk) code. The reasons for this were
numerous, but largely irrelevant at this point. In an attempt to
accelerate things, I forked the code, called it pmdisk, and merged
the cleanups. I had intended to merge the two, but circumstance
took another turn for the worst, and I was left with absolutely no
time to tend to it, leaving the net effect a major detriment to the
overall effort…'”