Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 28 Feb 2003 14:05:48 +0100 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Software Suspend Functionality in 2.5 |
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Hi!
> Since we've had to work on a solution that can be used > for accurate non-disruptive dumps as well as crash dumps > (the latter using kexec), I was wondering whether it > was worth exploring possibilities of commonality with > swsusp down the line ... I know its not probably not > something very immediate, but just an indication on > whether we should keep applicability for swsusp (probably > reuse and share ideas/code back and forth between the > two efforts) in mind as we move forward. Because we > have to support a more restrictive situation when it > comes to dumping, it just may be usable by swsusp too > if we can get it right.
Well, less code duplication is always welcome. But notice we need *atomic* snapshots in swsusp, else we might corrupt data. -- Horseback riding is like software... ...vgf orggre jura vgf serr. - 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/
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