linux-kernel - Re: Suspend to disk: do we HAVE to use swap?

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Message-Id: <200610311348.59069.s0348365@sms.ed.ac.uk>
Date:	Tue, 31 Oct 2006 13:48:59 +0000
From:	Alistair John Strachan <s0348365@....ed.ac.uk>
To:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
Cc:	John Richard Moser <nigelenki@...cast.net>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Suspend to disk:  do we HAVE to use swap?

On Tuesday 31 October 2006 06:16, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
[snip]
> However, we already have code that allows us to use swap files for the
> suspend and turning a regular file into a swap file is as easy as running
> 'mkswap' and 'swapon' on it.

How is this feature enabled? I don't see it in 2.6.19-rc4.

-- 
Cheers,
Alistair.

Final year Computer Science undergraduate.
1F2 55 South Clerk Street, Edinburgh, UK.
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