Re: PATCH: swsusp - 2.5.66 incremental

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

Hi!

> Here's the first incremental patch for you, Pavel. As requested, I've
> sent patches to Alan Cox (ide-disk.c) and Richard Gooch (mtrrs - I
> didn't implement the driver model - just attached the relevant portion
> and asked for his feedback). This is patch 3, then.

You really should have moved it to the driver model... having #ifdef
in suspend.c for every driver would be very ugly.

> It's pretty simple - just replaces (temporarily) the assembly with code
> that we can patch, as we've previously discussed. You'll remember that I
> found I needed to use the 2.4 version to get it working - that's what's
> included here. Only one small change - it uses longs rather than chars
> during copying, making restoring the image take 1/4 of the time. (Not
> significant when there are only 2000 pages being saved, but remember
> this is groundwork for future patches).

I'm not going to take this, because I would not be able to sync this
to Linus (and have enough problems keeping my patches up-to-date
already).

								Pavel
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