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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linux PM <linux-pm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH -mm] swsusp: specify available swap in bytes
Date: Sun, 22 Jan 2006 18:14:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060122171447.GA1627@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601221211.20937.rjw@sisk.pl>

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On Ne 22-01-06 12:11:20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> If the SNAPSHOT_AVAIL_SWAP ioctl returns the number of bytes, it will allow us
> to use the number as an input for the SNAPSHOT_SET_IMAGE_SIZE ioctl directly.
> 
> OTOH, to make SNAPSHOT_AVAIL_SWAP return the number of bytes we need to
> add the size of the image in bytes to the image header, but this really costs us
> nothing, because the header is page-aligned anyway.
> 
> The appended patch contains all the necessary changes.
> 
> Opinions welcome. :-)

ACK.

BTW that "make /sys/power/image_size be in bytes" perhaps should be
merged to Linus, so that 2.6.16 has final version of userland
interface. It is better to change it between -rc1 and final than
between 2.6.16 and 2.6.17.

Thanks,
								Pavel

-- 
Thanks, Sharp!

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  reply	other threads:[~2006-01-22 17:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-22 11:11 [RFC][PATCH -mm] swsusp: specify available swap in bytes Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-22 17:14 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-01-23  8:09   ` Stefan Seyfried
2006-01-23 10:34     ` Rafael J. Wysocki

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