Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Sun 19-11-06 21:30:11, Al Boldi wrote:
> Mike Galbraith wrote:
> > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 09:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > > When doing 'make oldconfig' we should ask about suspend/resume
> > > > debug features when SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not enabled.
> > >
> > > That's wrong.
> > >
> > > I never use SOFTWARE_SUSPEND, and I think the whole concept is totally
> > > broken.
> > >
> > > Sane people use suspend-to-ram, and that's when you need the suspend and
> > > resume debugging.
> >
> > Here I am wishing I had the _opportunity_ to be sane.  With my ATI X850
> > AGP card, I have no choices except swsusp or reboot.
> 
> You make it sound like suspend-to-ram is dependent on a correct display 
> adapter to work; it doesn't even work on a machine without a display 
> adapter.
> 
> see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7037

Well, on 'normal' machines, video card is the most common problem.

							Pavel

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