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KernelTrap: Reviewing Suspend2

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Web Webster
Web Webster
Jun 29, 2006

“Nigel Cunningham submitted his suspend2 patches to the lkml for
review and inclusion into Andrew Morton’s -mm tree. Jens Axboe
summarized the current roadblocks to merging suspend2, ‘now I
haven’t followed the suspend2 vs swsusp debate very closely, but it
seems to me that your biggest problem with getting this merged is
getting consensus on where exactly this is going. Nobody wants two
different suspend modules in the kernel. So there are two
options–suspend2 is deemed the way to go, and it gets merged and
replaces swsusp. Or the other way around–people like swsusp more,
and you are doomed to maintain suspend2 outside the tree…'”

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Web Webster

Web Webster

Web Webster has more than 20 years of writing and editorial experience in the tech sector. He’s written and edited news, demand generation, user-focused, and thought leadership content for business software solutions, consumer tech, and Linux Today, he edits and writes for a portfolio of tech industry news and analysis websites including webopedia.com, and DatabaseJournal.com.

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