Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2: hang in atomic copy)

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > > The interface isn't even 64/32-bit compatible...
> > 
> > It's not .  And it's one of the worst interface I've seen lately. Did 
> > anyone actually review this crap before it went in?  I completely 
> > agree with Linus that these kind of boundaries that lead to horribly 
> > complex ioctl interface are totally wrong.
> 
> it's a bit hard to see the point of it anyway: the resume binary (much 
> of the focus of the ioctls) fundamentally lives as an 'initrd binary' - 
> and most of the stuff that wants to execute in an initrd is 
> fundamentally tied to the kernel anyway.

Typically... yes, it needs to be in initrd.

And yes, klibc would help here.

							Pavel
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