From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S262182AbUK0ESi (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 23:18:38 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S262174AbUK0D7Y (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 22:59:24 -0500 Received: from zeus.kernel.org ([204.152.189.113]:42947 "EHLO zeus.kernel.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S262447AbUKZTan (ORCPT ); Fri, 26 Nov 2004 14:30:43 -0500 Date: Thu, 25 Nov 2004 19:07:25 +0100 From: Pavel Machek To: Nigel Cunningham Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Subject: Re: Suspend 2 merge: 10/51: Exports for suspend built as modules. Message-ID: <20041125180725.GB1417@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <1101292194.5805.180.camel@desktop.cunninghams> <1101294252.5805.228.camel@desktop.cunninghams> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1101294252.5805.228.camel@desktop.cunninghams> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > The sys_ functions are exported because a while ago, people suggested I > use /dev/console to output text that doesn't need to be logged, and I > also use /dev/splash for the bootsplash support. These functions were Well, we don't do ascii-art on kernel boot and I do not see why we should do it on suspend. Distributions will love bootsplash integration, but it should stay as a separate patch. See swsusp1... it has percentage printing, and I think it should be possible to make it look good enough. Why do you need sys_mkdir? Pavel -- 64 bytes from 195.113.31.123: icmp_seq=28 ttl=51 time=448769.1 ms