linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] swsusp: Use platform mode by default

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Date:	Wed, 17 Oct 2007 10:35:58 +0800
From:	"Qi Yong" <qiiyoong@...il.com>
To:	"Stefan Seyfried" <seife@...e.de>
Cc:	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@...k.pl>, "Len Brown" <lenb@...nel.org>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	"Alexey Starikovskiy" <alexey_y_starikovskiy@...ux.intel.com>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"Pavel Machek" <pavel@....cz>, linux-acpi@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] swsusp: Use platform mode by default

On 14/05/2007, Stefan Seyfried <seife@...e.de> wrote:
> On Fri, May 11, 2007 at 03:51:38PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> >
> >
> > On Fri, 11 May 2007, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > >
> > > Just to clarify, the change in question isn't new.  It was introduced by the
> > > commit 9185cfa92507d07ac787bc73d06c42222eec7239 before 2.6.20, at Seife's
> > > request and with Pavel's acceptance.
> >
> > Ok, if it's that old, we migt as leave it in. Clearly there weren't many
> > regressions, and this isn't a case of other monsters lurking behind a lack
> > of testers.
>
> I pushed for this since on ACPI machines, "platform" is the right thing to do,
> and i still think it will only break on machines that have a broken ACPI BIOS.
> (Are there machines with broken ACPI BIOS around? ;-)
>
> Your additional "fall back to shutdown if !(ops)"-fix looks very sane,
> however, and is definitely a good idea.

The key point is "fall back to shutdown _only_ if !ops, otherwise
don't touch hibernation_mode". And that solves my problem.
-- 
Qi Yong
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