[Pm-utils] [RFC] check for swap partition in pm-is-supported for hibernate / suspend-hybrid

[Till Maas]

On Fri February 8 2008, Victor Lowther wrote:

> I would not add it as an intergal part of pm-utils.  tuxonice,
> for example, can be configured to hibernate/resume without touching a
> swap partition or a swap file.

Iirc did you create some patches that separte the checks for the different 
sleep methods for the different backends.

> Well, I would not have pm-is-supported check for the presence of an
> available swap partition -- a usage scenario that would break involves
> someone who normally runs without swap, and mounts the swap partition just
> for hibernate

How does this break? As soon as someone activates a swap partition, the output 
of pm-is-supported would change. And in case it is not activated, hibernation 
would fail anyways. Unless he uses a different sleep-backend than the kernel 
of course.

Regards,
Till

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