uswsusp & initrd -- was Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!


> > To some degree, /initrd was supposed to do things like that, and in 
> > theory, it still could. However, realistically, 99% of any /initrd is more 
> > about the distribution than the kernel, so right now we have to count 
> > /initrd as a distribution thing, not a kernel thing.
> 
> ... and if we're truly going to be pouring more and more complexity
> into initrd (such as userspace swsusp), then (a) we probably should
> make it more of a kernel-specific thing, and not a distro-specific

Actually, distros started to do swsusp-resume-from-initrd long before
uswsusp -- because of scsi modules. So that complexity exists
already...

Anyway somehow simplifying/kernelizing initrd would be nice. Right now
I'm using read-only ext2 as poor-mans initrd (because it is easier to
set up that way).
							Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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