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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Linux PM <linux-pm@osdl.org>, LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	ast@domdv.de, Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: userland interface (rev. 2)
Date: Thu, 5 Jan 2006 02:05:05 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060105010505.GD1751@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601042340.42118.rjw@sisk.pl>

Hi!

> This is the second "preview release" of the swsusp userland interface patches.
> They have changed quite a bit since the previous post, as I tried to make the
> interface more robust against some potential user space bugs (or outright
> attempts to abuse it).
> 
> The swsusp userland interface is based on a special character device allowing
> a user space process to initiate suspend or resume using ioctls and to write or read
> the system memory snapshot from the device (actually more operations are
> defined on the device).  The device itself is introduced by the
> second patch.
...
> Any feedback will be very much appreciated.

Pretty please, give it a try. If you think about introducing
splashscreen/compression/encryption into swsusp, userland parts of
these patches should be great place for it.
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!

  parent reply	other threads:[~2006-01-05  1:05 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-01-04 22:40 [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: userland interface (rev. 2) Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:47 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 1/5] swsusp: swsusp: low level " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:51 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 2/5] swsusp: userland " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 23:49   ` [linux-pm] " Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:18     ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-05  0:26       ` Greg KH
2006-01-05  0:54         ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-05  0:55         ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-05 23:34         ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-05 23:45           ` Greg KH
2006-01-04 22:53 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 3/5] swsusp: separate swap-writing and reading code " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:55 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 4/5] swsusp: move highmem-handling code to swsusp.c " Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-04 22:56 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 5/5] swsusp: userland interface documentation and config Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-05  1:05 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2006-01-05 23:30 ` [RFC/RFT][PATCH -mm 0/5] swsusp: userland interface (rev. 2) Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 21:17   ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-06 22:44     ` Pavel Machek
2006-01-06 23:41       ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-01-06 23:59         ` Pavel Machek

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