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From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@rjwysocki.net>
To: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>
Cc: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] power/hibernate: Make passing hibernate offsets more friendly
Date: Mon, 19 Mar 2018 11:11:07 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1854392.I8WPNng6r5@aspire.rjw.lan> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1520333620-22342-1-git-send-email-mario.limonciello@dell.com>

On Tuesday, March 6, 2018 11:53:40 AM CET Mario Limonciello wrote:
> Currently the only way to specify a hibernate offset for a
> swap file is on the kernel command line.
> 
> Add a new /sys/power/disk_offset that lets userspace
> specify the offset and disk to use when initiating a hibernate
> cycle.
> 
> Also split up the parsing routine to re-use the same code
> for the /sys/power/resume and /sys/power/disk_offset parsing.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mario Limonciello <mario.limonciello@dell.com>

Well, IMO /sys/power/resume and /sys/power/disk_offset would be confusingly
similar after this patch.

I wonder if adding a resume_offset sysfs attr to simply allow the value of
resume offset alone to be passed to the kernel at run time (in addition to
the command line) would work?

Thanks!

  reply	other threads:[~2018-03-19 10:10 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-03-06 10:53 Mario Limonciello
2018-03-19 10:11 ` Rafael J. Wysocki [this message]
2018-03-26  7:17   ` Mario.Limonciello
2018-03-26  9:37     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2018-03-26  9:41       ` Mario.Limonciello

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