linux-kernel - Re: Back to the future.

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Date:	Mon, 7 May 2007 07:37:57 -0700 (PDT)
From:	david@...g.hm
To:	Oliver Neukum <oneukum@...e.de>
cc:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	David Lang <david.lang@...italinsight.com>,
	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka J Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Back to the future.

On Mon, 7 May 2007, Oliver Neukum wrote:

> Am Montag, 7. Mai 2007 14:48 schrieb Pavel Machek:
>>>> Including network? Your tcp peers will be really confused, then, if
>>>> you ACK packets then claim you did not get them. No, you do not want
>>>> to start network.
>>>
>>> anyone who is doing a hibernate or suspend who expect all the network
>>> connections to be working afterwords is dreaming or smokeing
>>> something.
>>
>> Really? It works today... if the suspend is short enough. And that's
>> how it should be.
>
> If we get very good at Wake-on-Lan it should work for any length
> of time.

for suspend-to-ram this would work, I stand corrected.

for hibernate this would almost certinly not work, and I don't think that 
it's worth raising false hopes.

David Lang
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