From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: pm list <linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/5] Hibernation: Clean up userland interface (rev. 2)
Date: Mon, 5 Nov 2007 12:50:21 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200711051250.21172.lenb@kernel.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200710260055.02298.rjw@sisk.pl>
On Thursday 25 October 2007 18:55, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
>
> This series of patches is intended to eliminate some design problems with the
> hibernation userland interface.
>
> It makes the following changes:
> * allow the user space utilities to get the size of the image via ioctl
> * introduce ioctls to be used instead of SNAPSHOT_PMOPS
> * mark the SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl as deprecated
> * introduce new ioctl definitions to replace the wrongly defined ones
> * move the definitions of hibernation ioctls to a separate header file located
> in include/linux/ and export them to the user space
> (the details are in the changelogs).
>
> Please add to the suspend branch.
done.
thanks for doing this in a way that doesn't break existing user-binaries.
-Len
prev parent reply other threads:[~2007-11-05 17:50 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2007-10-25 22:55 [PATCH 0/5] Hibernation: Clean up userland interface (rev. 2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-25 22:59 ` [PATCH 1/5] Hibernation: Introduce SNAPSHOT_GET_IMAGE_SIZE ioctl Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-25 23:01 ` [PATCH 2/5] Hibernation: Rework platform support ioctls (rev. 2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-25 23:02 ` [PATCH 3/5] Hibernation: Mark SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE ioctl as deprecated " Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-25 23:03 ` [PATCH 4/5] Hibernation: Correct definitions of some ioctls " Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-10-25 23:05 ` [PATCH 5/5] Hibernation: Introduce exportable suspend ioctls header " Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-11-05 17:50 ` Len Brown [this message]
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