From: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suspend-to-disk woes
Date: Mon, 21 Mar 2005 00:17:57 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <E1DDAcH-0002n5-00@chiark.greenend.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1111364066.9720.2.camel@desktop.cunningham.myip.net.au>
Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@cyclades.com> wrote:
> Yuck! Why panic when you know what is needed? A better solution is to
> tell the user they've messed up and given them the option to (1) reboot
> and try another kernel or (2) have swsusp restore the original swap
> signature and continue booting. This is what suspend2 does (with a
> timeout for the prompt). It's not that hard.
It's trivial to do this in userspace - just have an app in initramfs
that checks for a swsusp signature, and then compare the kernel
versions. If they mismatch, prompt for what to do. Putting it in the
kernel is madness.
--
Matthew Garrett | mjg59-chiark.mail.linux-rutgers.kernel@srcf.ucam.org
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-03-21 0:18 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-03-18 16:28 Erik Andrén
2005-03-18 17:54 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-03-18 22:04 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-03-19 13:26 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-19 20:20 ` Russell Miller
2005-03-19 21:29 ` Pavel Machek
2005-03-19 21:44 ` Russell Miller
2005-03-21 0:14 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-03-21 0:17 ` Matthew Garrett [this message]
2005-03-21 5:59 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-03-21 9:33 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-03-21 21:38 ` Nigel Cunningham
2005-03-21 7:38 ` Stefan Seyfried
2005-03-21 11:23 ` Nigel Cunningham
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