linux-kernel - Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

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Message-ID: <20070212121934.GA5226@ucw.cz>
Date:	Mon, 12 Feb 2007 12:19:35 +0000
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	Willy Tarreau <w@....eu>
Cc:	Robert Hancock <hancockr@...w.ca>,
	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>
Subject: Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

Hi!

> > I think your experience is rather different than that of Joe Average 
> > User who doesn't frequent kernel lists, and also I think you'll find 
> > that for a lot of Linux laptop users that don't use supend, the reason 
> > is that it doesn't work reliably, quite often due to driver issues.
> 
> I would believe it if I knew people using suspend/resume on the other OS.
> But that's not the case either. Also, it happens that with today's RAM
> sizes, suspend-to-disk then resume can be several times slower than a
> clean fresh boot. When you have 1 GB to write at 20 MB/s, it takes 50

Stop spreading FUD. swsusp only saves _used_ memory, not all memory,
so it indeed should be faster these days. And yes, it supports
encryption these days.

						Pavel
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