Re: swsusp: fix devfs breakage introduced in 2.6.6

[Sau Dan Lee]

>>>>> "Pavel" == Pavel Machek <pavel@xxxxxx> writes:

    Pavel> Hi!  This fixes bad interaction between devfs and swsusp.

    Pavel>  Check whether the swap device is the specified resume
    Pavel> device, irrespective of whether they are specified by
    Pavel> identical names.

    Pavel>  (Thus, device inode aliasing is allowed.  You can say
    Pavel> /dev/hda4 instead of /dev/ide/host0/bus0/target0/lun0/part4
    Pavel> [if using devfs] and they'll be considered the same device.
    Pavel> This is *necessary* for devfs, since the resume code can
    Pavel> only recognize the form /dev/hda4, but the suspend code
    Pavel> would like the long name [as shown in 'cat /proc/mounts'].)

    Pavel> [Thanks to devfs hero whose name I forgot.]  Pavel

The patch  was submitted by  me.  But I'm  no devfs hero at  all.  I'm
just a  happy user of devfs who  gets unhappy due to  this swsusp bug.
:)



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