Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 27 Nov 2004 08:22:24 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Suspend 2 merge: 9/51: init/* changes. |
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Hi!
> >> 1) Make name_to_dev_t non init. Why should you need to reboot if all you > >> want to do is change the device you're using to suspend? That's M_'s way > > > > Well, if you change it using /proc and forget to change kernel cmd line, you'll have > > a problem. Do you really change this so often? > > name_to_dev_t needs to be non-init in order to make it possible to > trigger a resume when the block device driver isn't static. Pavel, would > you be willing to consider a patch to make it possible to trigger swsusp > resume from userspace? That gets things working with initrd kernels. > I've been using something along these lines for a few weeks now, and it > hasn't eaten my filesystem yet.
Given it is not too intrusive... why not. Send it for comments. I probably will not use this myself, so you'll need to test/maintain it.
> Yes, I was thinking of this mostly from a distribution perspective. > There's always potential for data-loss if users resume after touching > the root filesystem. On the other hand, it's currently possible for them > to do that anyway (think booting a different kernel without swsusp > support, then rebooting back into the swsusp one)
Yep... -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms
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