linux-kernel - Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

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Message-ID: <20070310220810.GF2758@elf.ucw.cz>
Date:	Sat, 10 Mar 2007 23:08:10 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@...e.cz>
To:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Cc:	Stefan Seyfried <seife@...e.de>,
	Johannes Stezenbach <js@...uxtv.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
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Subject: Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

Hi!

> > Ok. To be honest, you are the first reporter that seems to have read 
> > the documentation above, but not understood what to do.
> 
> thanks for the compliment ;-) _I_ very much know what to do (i mailed 
> the right person after all ;), but i dont really count and on the 6 

(Can we get the whitelist entries?)

> > i might consider reworking the documentation if there are more reports 
> > about problems with the procedure.
> 
> Probably tweaking the webpage doesnt help because people dont get there 
> - as the results plainly show it. Maybe some more automation would be 
> useful too, a tool that detects failed resume and tries all those 
> options that makes sense on that box or something? It's not like
> that 

Unfortunately, these tend to crash the box when you pass wrong
options, and I do not see easy way to test "can user see whats on
display" automatically.

Feel free to send patches, but I do not think it is easy/possible.

									Pavel
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