Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751296AbWBVO0A (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:26:00 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751295AbWBVO0A (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:26:00 -0500 Received: from gprs189-60.eurotel.cz ([160.218.189.60]:2056 "EHLO spitz.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751293AbWBVOZ7 (ORCPT ); Wed, 22 Feb 2006 09:25:59 -0500 Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 14:25:11 +0000 From: Pavel Machek To: "Theodore Ts'o" , Linus Torvalds , Andrew Morton , Kay Sievers , penberg@cs.helsinki.fi, gregkh@suse.de, bunk@stusta.de, rml@novell.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, johnstul@us.ibm.com Subject: uswsusp & initrd -- was Re: 2.6.16-rc4: known regressions Message-ID: <20060222142511.GA2510@ucw.cz> References: <1140383653.11403.8.camel@localhost> <20060220010205.GB22738@suse.de> <1140562261.11278.6.camel@localhost> <20060221225718.GA12480@vrfy.org> <20060221153305.5d0b123f.akpm@osdl.org> <20060222000429.GB12480@vrfy.org> <20060221162104.6b8c35b1.akpm@osdl.org> <20060222112158.GB26268@thunk.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20060222112158.GB26268@thunk.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.9i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1083 Lines: 27 Hi! > > To some degree, /initrd was supposed to do things like that, and in > > theory, it still could. However, realistically, 99% of any /initrd is more > > about the distribution than the kernel, so right now we have to count > > /initrd as a distribution thing, not a kernel thing. > > ... and if we're truly going to be pouring more and more complexity > into initrd (such as userspace swsusp), then (a) we probably should > make it more of a kernel-specific thing, and not a distro-specific Actually, distros started to do swsusp-resume-from-initrd long before uswsusp -- because of scsi modules. So that complexity exists already... Anyway somehow simplifying/kernelizing initrd would be nice. Right now I'm using read-only ext2 as poor-mans initrd (because it is easier to set up that way). Pavel -- Thanks, Sharp! - 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/