Comment 19 for bug 350491

(In reply to comment #1)
> My suggestion on ubuntu's side for dealing with this problem:
>
> 1) Whenever you hibernate, save a copy of the grub menu.lst to a backup
> location
> 2) Change menu.lst to boot the currently running kernel by default, with a
> label simply reading "Resume from Hibernation".
> 3) If possible, add a warning message to the grub menu that booting any other
> option will result in a loss of the hibernated state
> 4) On resume from hibernation, restore the backup menu.lst from step 1.
>
> In this way, no attempt to boot an incorrect kernel will be made until the user
> explicitly requests it, ie, as part of a manual reboot.
>

I am running Arch and whenever there is a kernel upgrade, the menu.lst doesn't get changed. The entry is the same, but you would automatically boot the new kernel.
I would suggest to make checks for installed and running kernel versions and if they do not match, simply do not allow to hibernate. This would be the safest solution upstream, because the menu.lst method may not work on some distros (like Arch) or there may not even be a menu.lst (like on Ubuntu 9.10 where the default loader is grub2, or any other distro using a loader other than grub-there are still some lilos I would guess).
The should still be a configuration option to alllow for hibernation, even if the kernels do not match. If the distro developer would want to activate hibernation even after a kernel upgrade, he would have to find a solution compatible with his distro's boot system.