Re: [PATCH -mm] swsusp: userland interface (rev 2)

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Tue Jan 24 2006 - 17:32:02 EST


On Út 24-01-06 17:20:44, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 24, 2006 at 11:14:26PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> > suspending programs are quite closely tied to the kernel. I think it
> > is reasonable to expect users to have matching version of kernel and
> > userland-swsusp tools
>
> _ _ ____ ____ ____ ____ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _
> / \ / \ | _ \| _ \ / ___|/ ___| | | | | | | | | | | | |
> / _ \ / _ \ | |_) | |_) | | _| | _| |_| | |_| | |_| | |_| |
> / ___ \ / ___ \| _ <| _ <| |_| | |_| | _ | _ | _ | _ |
> /_/ \_\/_/ \_\_| \_\_| \_\\____|\____|_| |_|_| |_|_| |_|_| |_|
>
> Someone please stop this madness..

Nice ascii art :-).

We'll of course try to get the interface right at the first
try. OTOH... if wrong interface is in kernel for a month, I do not
think it is reasonable to keep supporting that wrong interface for a
year before it can be removed. One month of warning should be fair in
such case...
Pavel

--
Thanks, Sharp!
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