[gull] hibernate: kernel vs userspace

[Thierry de Coulon]

On Thursday, 19. July 2007, Daniel Cordey wrote:
> > Par contre personne ne semble pouvoir (vouloir?) répondre à la question
> > de base que je posais: quelle différence (ou quel avantage) y a-t-il
> > entre l'hibernation "kernel" et l'hibernation "user space"?
>
> Mais si... google est ton ami :-)
>
> "Also worth mentioning is uswsusp, abbreviation for userland-swsusp. It is
> an implementation of an interface for software suspend in the user space.
> All kernels starting from 2.6.17 have uswsusp merged in them. The module
> gives access to software suspend functionalities by exposing common file
> operation methods that can be used to operate on a character device. This
> is only useful for developers who would like to write their software
> suspend applications in user space and hence I won’t delve into this topic
> in detail here."

Merci. Je ne sais pas pourquoi, mais je n'étais pas tombé dessus.

Thierry