linux-kernel - Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Restore old swap signature to avoid user space breakage

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Date:	Sun, 12 Dec 2010 07:30:20 +1100
From:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	Linux-pm mailing list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Karel Zak <kzak@...hat.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Dr. David Alan Gilbert" <linux@...blig.org>
Subject: Re: [linux-pm] [PATCH] PM / Hibernate: Restore old swap signature
 to avoid user space breakage

On Sat, 2010-12-11 at 20:58 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> I'm afraid I'll have to push this patch to Linus.  Turns out that
> Fedora 14 doesn't pass the resume= argument to the kernel and tries to
> trigger the resume from initramfs.  Since the signature changed, it
> can't find the image and the resume fails, even if both the resume and
> image kernels are the same. 

Why don't you just file a Fedora bug asking for the library to be
upgraded or patched?

PS. Karel, who also replied to this thread, has a Red Hat address and he
seems to be the maintainer of util-linux-ng package. He should be able
to fix this.

-- 
Bojan

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