Re: Documentation on /sys/power/resume

[Bill Davidsen <davidsen@tmr.com>]

Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> On Sunday, 27 May 2007 01:51, Bill Davidsen wrote:
>> Not in the ABI doc, is there and doc at all, and if not could someone 
>> who knows where it's used might give me a hint, as a quick look didn't 
>> bring enlightenment. Or is it a future hook which doesn't work yet?
> 
> That's something that in theory may allow you to resume the system from
> and initrd script.
> 
> Basically, you write your resume device's major and minor numbers
> into it as the "MAJ:MIN" string (eg. "8:3" for /dev/sda3 on my box) and the
> kernel will try to read the image from this device and restore it.
> 
> It only works with partitions and the use of it us discouraged, so it's
> deliberately undocumented.
> 
Thanks, that's just different enough from what little info I had to make 
what I have not work. I'm looking at resume from a non-swap location.

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