Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:53:23 -0500 | From | Dave Jones <> | Subject | Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support. |
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On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:23:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote: > > > > (By and large, the biggest problem is repeated kernel regressions that > > hit suspend in bizarre ways. This doesn't get picked up on quickly > > because almost nobody is using this code, because "everyone knows" it > > doesn't work. Except it /does/. What we need is for distributions to > > actually work together on this, rather than everyone trying to fix the > > same problems independently, each coming up with different solutions and > > the world generally being a miserable place) > > Is it still the case that swsusp requries that the disk drivers be > statically linked into vmlinux? > > If so, I'd have thought that this was quite a problem for distros, > although I have a vague feeling that RH worked around it in some manner.
We do it all in the initrd, before any filesystems are touched.
Dave
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