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Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2012 22:29:31 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>
Cc:	Bojan Smojver <bojan@...ursive.com>,
	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>,
	"Srivatsa S. Bhat" <srivatsa.bhat@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Linux PM list <linux-pm@...r.kernel.org>,
	Kernel development list <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH]: In kernel hibernation, suspend to both

On Monday, June 18, 2012, Borislav Petkov wrote:
> On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 10:33:06AM +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote:
> > On Sun, 2012-06-17 at 22:21 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > Yeah, that will do.
> > 
> > Something like this maybe. I didn't really test this, so Borislav,
> > please let me know whether this is something that may works for you.
> 
> Yeah, this could probably work but it changes the progress indicator
> unconditionally.
> 
> I don't know what the general consensus is about the progress indicator
> but if you want to keep the old behavior too, you probably need to carve
> out the printk functionality from save_image() and pass flags to the new
> function which printks different output depending on how it is.
> 
> If we don't want the current output with how many pages it needs to use
> on swap, then we can do the dots.
> 
> Frankly, I don't have a preference.

I'm not sure if the current behavior is worth preserving.  It's a bit hackish
and doesn't work with dmesg buffer, as you have noticed.

So, I think printing a status line every 10% would be fine.

Thanks,
Rafael
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