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SubjectRe: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.
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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