Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751159AbVKOVru (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:47:50 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751154AbVKOVru (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:47:50 -0500 Received: from mail.kroah.org ([69.55.234.183]:11665 "EHLO perch.kroah.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751122AbVKOVrt (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 16:47:49 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 13:32:29 -0800 From: Greg KH To: Pavel Machek Cc: kernel list , "Rafael J. Wysocki" , Linux-pm mailing list Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp Message-ID: <20051115213229.GB11776@kroah.com> References: <20051115212942.GA9828@elf.ucw.cz> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20051115212942.GA9828@elf.ucw.cz> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.11 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 693 Lines: 19 On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 10:29:42PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > Hi! > > This is prototype of userland swsusp. I'd like kernel parts to go in, > probably for 2.6.16. Now, I'm not sure about the interface, ioctls are > slightly ugly, OTOH it would be probably overkill to introduce > syscalls just for this. (I'll need to add an ioctl for freeing memory > in future). What's wrong with 4 new syscalls? It seems the cleanest way. thanks, greg k-h - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/