Re: [PATCH] make swsusp produce nicer screen output

[Erik Rigtorp <erik@rigtorp.com>]

On Mon, Aug 23, 2004 at 07:42:18PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Well, it looks nice, be sure to submit smooth version :-).
I'm working on it :).

> > @@ -85,10 +85,17 @@
> >  
> >  static void free_some_memory(void)
> >  {
> > -	printk("Freeing memory: ");
> > -	while (shrink_all_memory(10000))
> > -		printk(".");
> > -	printk("|\n");
> > +	int i = 0;
> > +	char *p = "-\|/";
> > +	
> > +	printk("Freeing memory:  ");
> > +	while (shrink_all_memory(10000)) {
> > +		printk("\b%c", p[i]);
> > +		i++;
> > +		if (i > 3)
> > +			i = 0;
> > +	}
> > +	printk("\bdone\n");
> >  }
> 
> I'd leave dots here. Its usefull to see if it done something or not.

Well, it will display a spinning thingy that is updated every time
shrink_all_memory(10000) returns. Maybe you want to see how much memory was
freed?

And do we need to handle the case when nr_copy_pages < 100?

/Erik