On Tue, Jan 17, 2006 at 06:49:16AM +1100, Bojan Smojver wrote: > I see there was quite a bit of discussion about having alternative > kernels in Extras. For the record: > > - I don't want that > - I certainly don't want that based on any patches I provided links to > > The links were provided for people to build their own (if they are > having trouble with suspend/resume), just like I did. It is a lot of > work during Rawhide, but once the release is out, things are far less > stressful. > > I asked on the list before about including suspend2. Dave Jones replied > that it would be too much maintenance for such a large patch to be > included and that FC kernels are also trying to stay as close to vanilla > as possible. All valid and I'm not going to ask for suspend2 to be part > of the FC kernels again, unless it gets accepted upstream (which I'm > sure will happen once code/egos become right :-). > > If, somehow suspend2 doesn't become part of upstream and get modularised > again, I would be in favour of making that kernel module available in > Extras. But, that's so far away and may never even happen, so it's not > worth talking about. Upstream seems to be moving towards moving more and more of its functionality into userspace. If this happens, a lot of the suspend2 patch should disappear. Most of the diff between in-kernel suspend and suspend2 is the bells & whistles like compression, splash screens, etc. Dave -- fedora-devel-list mailing list fedora-devel-list@xxxxxxxxxx https://www.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/fedora-devel-list
