linux-kernel - Re: echo mem > /sys/power/state

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Date:	Thu, 17 Jan 2008 11:13:55 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, Len Brown <lenb@...nel.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: echo mem > /sys/power/state

On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:36:51 -0700 Zan Lynx <zlynx@....org> wrote:

> 
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 22:24 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So I take everyone's latest and greatest product and injudiciously type the
> > above command.  The result five minutes later is at
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/borkage.jpg.  See if you can count all the bugs.
> > 
> > Sorry, but I've had it with this stuff and I'm tired of fixing everyone else's
> > stuff.  I'm just going to ship it.  Good luck.
> 
> Heh.  Laptop suspend to anything has been so broken for so long in the
> -mm series on my Compaq R3000 that I didn't even know it was ever
> supposed to work.

It gets broken more often than anything else.  I do test each release on
two laptops and I get to do a lot of bisection searching and
grumpygramming as a result.

Probably it would be more efficient to have the people who wrote the code
also test it.
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