linux-kernel - Re: Hibernation considerations

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Date:	Mon, 16 Jul 2007 17:25:15 +0200
From:	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>
To:	Alan Stern <stern@...land.harvard.edu>
Cc:	Nigel Cunningham <nigel@...el.suspend2.net>, david@...g.hm,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	"Huang, Ying" <ying.huang@...el.com>,
	Jeremy Maitin-Shepard <jbms@....edu>,
	Kyle Moffett <mrmacman_g4@....com>,
	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>,
	pm list <linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org>,
	Al Boldi <a1426z@...ab.com>
Subject: Re: Hibernation considerations

On Monday, 16 July 2007 16:15, Alan Stern wrote:
> On Mon, 16 Jul 2007, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> 
> > > As I understand it, running a different OS between the hibernate and 
> > > the resume would violate the ACPI spec.
> > 
> > Well then, I know one or two people who would argue that the ACPI spec is 
> > faulty. :\
> 
> It's hard to argue against that.  In fact there are people who would 
> argue that the ACPI spec is incomplete and inconsistent period, 
> regardless of any questions about what happens between hibernate and 
> resume.  :-)

That's true, but OTOH it's difficult to argue with my notebook's firmware
about that. ;-)

Greetings,
Rafael


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