linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

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Message-Id: <200610240012.32300.rjw@sisk.pl>
Date:	Tue, 24 Oct 2006 00:12:31 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Matthew Garrett <mjg59@...f.ucam.org>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	ncunningham@...uxmail.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

On Monday, 23 October 2006 23:39, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:50:22AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> > Apparently uswsusp has gained support for S3 while the in-kernel driver
> > does not support S3.  That's disappointing.
> 
> I'm still not sure why that's an especially desirable feature.

Well, I know of at least one user of it (not me). ;-)

> Every laptop I've played with will automatically resume from S3 when the 
> battery level becomes critical, which gives you the opportunity to 
> suspend to disk. And when it doesn't, you can generally emulate it using 
> the ACPI alarm to wake up. Is there really a significant quantity of 
> hardware out there that doesn't support either of these?

I think there is.


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