On Thu, 28 Oct 2004, Patrick Mochel wrote: > 'thaw' is the english opposite of 'freeze'. Note, though, that that > terminology is currently used for processes during suspend. Another antonym is 'defrost'. I have to agree with some of the things Pavel wrote. If the swap device is a USB flash disk, for instance, you can't write to it without enabling interrupts (and the APIC hardware). Not unless you want to go ahead and write a completely new USB controller driver that uses polling rather than interrupts. Alan Stern
