Am Donnerstag, 23. September 2004 18:13 schrieb Alan Stern:
> > > So among all the other features, there needs to be some way to exclude 
> > > some set of devices from a system-wide suspend.
> > 
> > How? If you cut power, you'll cut all power to bus powered devices.
> > Other devices will potentially go out of sync. This seems to me a bad
> > idea.
> 
> Sorry, I didn't express myself very well. �What I meant was, there needs 
> to be a way to exempt some devices (such as the swap device) from an 
> initial pass during system-wide suspend, then suspend them during a second 
> pass (after the memory image has been written).

1. Where is the advantage of special casing the swap device only?
2. What distinguishes the first pass from the second in the view of
a device?
3. Isn't exporting the knowledge which devices are swap devices
a layering violation?

        Regards
                Oliver



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