Messages in this thread | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | Subject | Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Restore old swap signature to avoid user space breakage | Date | Sat, 11 Dec 2010 21:36:23 +0100 |
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On Saturday, December 11, 2010, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 20:58 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote: > > I'm afraid I'll have to push this patch to Linus. Turns out that > > Fedora 14 doesn't pass the resume= argument to the kernel and tries to > > trigger the resume from initramfs. Since the signature changed, it > > can't find the image and the resume fails, even if both the resume and > > image kernels are the same. > > Why don't you just file a Fedora bug asking for the library to be > upgraded or patched?
Because that wouldn't fix the user space that _already_ is out there.
> PS. Karel, who also replied to this thread, has a Red Hat address and he > seems to be the maintainer of util-linux-ng package. He should be able > to fix this.
That doesn't matter. The rule is we don't break user space, even if it does unreasonable things.
Thanks, Rafael
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