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SubjectRe: APM "SuspendToDisk" implementation problem
Any way of getting an example of either of these so I can play 
with it?

Robert

Thus spake Pavel Machek (pavel@bug.ucw.cz):

> Hi!
>
> > 1. You can instead put the stuff in apmd - so when it sees a resume the
> > APM daemon configures your disk back
> >
> > 2. You wake a thread (or let an existing thread) do it. The thread can
> > sleep even though the irq cannot.
> >
> > Making apmd handle it seems "right" since it keeps it in user space
>
> Making apmd do it should be easy - new versions of apmd should allow
> you to run arbitrary commands after events.
>
> Only problem with "going userspace" is: what happens if apmd is
> swapped out? Then you need to read disk in order to swap it in. But
> you can not read disk, because it is missconfigured, now...
>
> Looks like it is not the way to go. :-(
>
> Pavel
> --
> I'm really pavel@atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz. Pavel
> Look at http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/ ;-).
>
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