Re: [RFC][PATCH 1/2 -mm] kexec based hibernation -v3: kexec jump

Nigel Cunningham
2007-09-21T11:58:47Z

Hi.

On Friday 21 September 2007 21:56:29 Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> [Besides, the current hibernation userland interface is used by default by
> openSUSE and it's also used by quite some Debian users, so we can't drop
> it overnight and it can't be implemented in a compatible way on top of the
> kexec-based solution.]

Could it be fudged by giving userland a null image and having (say) the first
ioctl be one that triggers all the real work (with other ioctls being noops
or such like, as appropriate)?

Regards,

Nigel