Hi.
On Mon, 2005-03-21 at 18:38, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> >
> > On Sun, 2005-03-20 at 08:29, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
> >> boot with "noresume", then mkswap.
> >
> > Yuck! Why panic when you know what is needed? A better solution is to
>
> Ok, so let's
>
> printk("You booted another kernel than you suspended with.\n");
> printk("You have two options now:\n");
> printk(" - boot the kernel you suspended with\n");
> printk(" - pass 'noresume' at boot and mkswap your swap partition "
> " later\n");
> printk("Try again, player 1!\n");
> panic();
Still in the yuck category, although the better information is
definitely an improvement :>
> > tell the user they've messed up and give them the option to (1) reboot
> > and try another kernel or (2) have swsusp restore the original swap
> > signature and continue booting. This is what suspend2 does (with a
> > timeout for the prompt). It's not that hard.
>
> yes, but you need user input etc. Not considered a good idea IIRC.
I understood that having it hang indefinitely was considered a bad idea.
Suspend2 already has code that does what I'm suggesting, and
incorporates a 30 second timeout.
> Anyway, the hard thing to do is to find out when to bail out and when
> not. The part that handles the user interface is the easier one :-)
Agreed. That's where Pavel's code might need a little hacking around.
Regards,
Nigel
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