linux-kernel - Re: Back to the future.

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Date:	Fri, 27 Apr 2007 10:51:22 +0300
From:	"Pekka Enberg" <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
To:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	"Xavier Bestel" <xavier.bestel@...e.fr>,
	"Nigel Cunningham" <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.

On 4/26/07, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> wrote:
> In fact, I personally feel that I shouldn't even have merged
> userspace-swsusp, but if Andrew thinks it needs to be merged, my personal
> feelings simply don't matter that much. I have to trust people. But yes,
> as far as *I* am personally concerned, I think it was a mistake to merge
> it.

While the ioctl() interface is horrid, I think it's actually in
principle pretty close to your snapshot_system()/resume_snapshot().
The ugliness probably comes from the fact that suspend to RAM and
snapshot/shutdown are interleaved there too.
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