Re: Disable hibernate -- Live media shouldn't allow it?

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday, May 15, 2013 06:14:25 PM Phillip Susi wrote:
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> When booting from removable media, you may end up mounting a swap
> partition on an internal hard disk, thus enabling hibernation.
> Inadvertently hibernating ( perhaps in response to ACPI HOT event ) is
> silly since the system can not be resumed.  Is there a flag somewhere
> to prevent hibernating?  Shouldn't there be and shouldn't it be
> disabled by default?

I don't think we have a good definition of "removable media".

Also, you usually can remove a normally non-removable disk while hibernated,
so I just don't see why we should disable it in any case.

That said, it is reasonable to expect live CDs not to configure the system to
hibernate in response to overheating etc.  But that's not a problem we can
address in the kernel.

Thanks,
Rafael


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Rafael J. Wysocki, Intel Open Source Technology Center.