Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:23:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
 > Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
 > >
 > > (By and large, the biggest problem is repeated kernel regressions that
 > >  hit suspend in bizarre ways. This doesn't get picked up on quickly
 > >  because almost nobody is using this code, because "everyone knows" it
 > >  doesn't work. Except it /does/. What we need is for distributions to
 > >  actually work together on this, rather than everyone trying to fix the
 > >  same problems independently, each coming up with different solutions and
 > >  the world generally being a miserable place)
 > 
 > Is it still the case that swsusp requries that the disk drivers be
 > statically linked into vmlinux?
 > 
 > If so, I'd have thought that this was quite a problem for distros,
 > although I have a vague feeling that RH worked around it in some manner.

We do it all in the initrd, before any filesystems are touched.

		Dave

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