Re: [linux-pm] [RFC] userland swsusp

[Pavel Machek]

Hi!

> > This is prototype of userland swsusp. I'd like kernel parts to go in,
> > probably for 2.6.16. Now, I'm not sure about the interface, ioctls are
> > slightly ugly, OTOH it would be probably overkill to introduce
> > syscalls just for this. (I'll need to add an ioctl for freeing memory
> > in future).
> 
> What's wrong with 4 new syscalls?  It seems the cleanest way.

I'd need about 7 of them, and that is on at least 3 architectures
(i386, x86-64, ppc, not sure about ppc64/arm). And it does not fix the
interface -- userland parts will still need to read/write /dev/kmem
:-(.

Yep, I can do it...
								Pavel
-- 
Thanks, Sharp!
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