From: Herbert Xu <herbert@gondor.apana.org.au>
To: pavel@ucw.cz (Pavel Machek)
Subject: Re: Suspend 2 merge: 9/51: init/* changes.
Cc: mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Organization: Core
In-Reply-To: <20041127072224.GM1417@openzaurus.ucw.cz>
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Date: Sat, 27 Nov 2004 20:31:52 +1100
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Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> wrote:
>
>> name_to_dev_t needs to be non-init in order to make it possible to
>> trigger a resume when the block device driver isn't static. Pavel, would
>> you be willing to consider a patch to make it possible to trigger swsusp
>> resume from userspace? That gets things working with initrd kernels.
>> I've been using something along these lines for a few weeks now, and it
>> hasn't eaten my filesystem yet.
> 
> Given it is not too intrusive... why not. Send it for comments.
> I probably will not use this myself, so you'll need to test/maintain
> it.

This shouldn't be necessary.  Since the resume is being initiated by
userspace, it can perform the function of name_to_dev_t and just feed
the numbers to the kernel.  The code to do that is still in Debian's
initrd-tools.

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