Re: [PATCH] Thaw userspace and kernel space separately.

[Bill Davidsen]

Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Modify process thawing so that we can thaw kernel space without thawing
> > userspace, and thaw kernelspace first. This will be useful in later
> > patches, where I intend to get swsusp thawing kernel threads only before
> > seeking to free memory.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Nigel Cunningham <nigel@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> NAK. "May be useful in future" is not good reason to merge it now. (If
> you did not want it merged, just mark it so).

I hope Nigel will keep working at it, since low memory machines like old 
laptops would benefit from suspend are a reality. It can be kept as a 
separate patch somewhere, like suspend2, which people can patch in to 
enhance the example code currently in the kernel.

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