backlight device, suspend/resume... [RANT]

andrzej zaborowski balrogg at gmail.com
Fri Jul 11 12:13:59 CEST 2008


2008/7/11 Werner Almesberger <werner at openmoko.org>:
> andrzej zaborowski wrote:
>> And you need your rootfs up, the kernel doesn't need it.
>
> You mean for /dev ? That could be kept in RAM. The power daemon can
> just mlock itself, so it doesn't need to page in from the executable.

There may be other processes reading a file. And resuming with the
rootfs suspended is a suicide I think - it should be same as booting
off a live-cd or SD and removing it and then resuming. It was always
fatal for me.

Regards




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