Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1750907AbWBCPxw (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:53:52 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1750920AbWBCPxw (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:53:52 -0500 Received: from mx1.redhat.com ([66.187.233.31]:6859 "EHLO mx1.redhat.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750842AbWBCPxv (ORCPT ); Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:53:51 -0500 Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 10:53:23 -0500 From: Dave Jones To: Andrew Morton Cc: Matthew Garrett , rlrevell@joe-job.com, pavel@ucw.cz, nigel@suspend2.net, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support. Message-ID: <20060203155323.GB24201@redhat.com> Mail-Followup-To: Dave Jones , Andrew Morton , Matthew Garrett , rlrevell@joe-job.com, pavel@ucw.cz, nigel@suspend2.net, torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org References: <20060202115907.GH1884@elf.ucw.cz> <200602022214.52752.nigel@suspend2.net> <20060202152316.GC8944@ucw.cz> <20060202132708.62881af6.akpm@osdl.org> <1138916079.15691.130.camel@mindpipe> <20060202142323.088a585c.akpm@osdl.org> <20060202142323.088a585c.akpm@osdl.org> <1138919381.15691.162.camel@mindpipe> <20060203022305.2e619476.akpm@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060203022305.2e619476.akpm@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1212 Lines: 26 On Fri, Feb 03, 2006 at 02:23:05AM -0800, Andrew Morton wrote: > Matthew Garrett wrote: > > > > (By and large, the biggest problem is repeated kernel regressions that > > hit suspend in bizarre ways. This doesn't get picked up on quickly > > because almost nobody is using this code, because "everyone knows" it > > doesn't work. Except it /does/. What we need is for distributions to > > actually work together on this, rather than everyone trying to fix the > > same problems independently, each coming up with different solutions and > > the world generally being a miserable place) > > Is it still the case that swsusp requries that the disk drivers be > statically linked into vmlinux? > > If so, I'd have thought that this was quite a problem for distros, > although I have a vague feeling that RH worked around it in some manner. We do it all in the initrd, before any filesystems are touched. Dave - 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/