On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 21:12 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > On Sat, 2013-04-13 at 13:15 +0100, Adam D. Barratt wrote: > > One of our kernel maintainers indicated in that earlier discussion that > > he doesn't believe the c/r functionality should be in an out-of-tree > > module. Ben, I assume that's still the case? > > What I meant was that checkpoint/resume necessarily depends on kernel > interfaces that are not particularly stable and not designed to provide > all the information needed, so the breakage of blcr kernel modules can > be expected to happen again and to be difficult to fix. > > But I don't want to stand in the way of an update to blcr that makes it > work out of the box in Debian 7.0. It will provide at least a stopgap > until people can use CRIU (checkpoint/restore in userspace) which I > expect to be more or less complete in Debian 8.0.
Thanks for the explanation / expansion. Regards, Adam -- To UNSUBSCRIBE, email to debian-bugs-dist-requ...@lists.debian.org with a subject of "unsubscribe". Trouble? Contact listmas...@lists.debian.org
