Re: [klibc] [klibc 30/31] Remove in-kernel resume-from-disk invocation code

[maximilian attems]

On Wed, Jul 05, 2006 at 05:11:07PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > 
> > This patch doesn't look right to me. After it is applied, the user will have 
> > no way of saying that they don't want to resume (noresume). I assume the 
> > removal of resume= isn't a problem because you're expecting them to use that 
> > other undocumented way of setting resume= that Pavel mentioned a while ago?
> > 
> 
> Yes, they have.  The handing of resume= and noresume are now done in 
> kinit; resume is invoked from userspace by direct command only.

the grumble on kinit is that it is a big monolithic bin.
You have no scriptability and it is not modular.
Very useful pieces out of kinit are not build standalone:
initrd_load, ramdisk_load, do_mounts_md, ..

-- 
maks
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