Date: Tue, 29 Mar 2005 00:19:22 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Jim Carter <jimc@math.ucla.edu>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, hare@suse.de, seife@suse.de
Subject: Re: Disc driver is module, software suspend fails
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Hi!

> > There's another feature that enables you to start resume manually with
> > some echo to /sys... Perhaps it needs to be documented better, I'm
> > looking for a patch ;-).
> 
> But how can it resume from a swap device for which it has no driver?

You insmod driver for your swap device, then you echo device numbers
to /sys... then initiate resume.

> Even if you copied the needed module(s) onto the swap device, the kernel
> needs the modules to be loaded before it can read anything.  The driver 
> would be there if resuming happened after the initrd loaded it.  But
> I wasn't able to make that actually work.

It should be possible, suse 9.3 does that...
								Pavel
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