linux-kernel - Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

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Date:	Tue, 19 Feb 2008 11:11:16 +0100
From:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
To:	David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, rjw@...k.pl,
	linux-pm@...ts.linux-foundation.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [patch] suspend/resume self-test

On Mon 2008-02-18 12:16:24, David Brownell wrote:
> On Monday 18 February 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> > 
> > * David Brownell <david-b@...bell.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > > >   - Includes a command line parameter, which needs work yet ... it
> > > > >     currently turns this test off, but it should also let the target
> > > > >     state be specified (and maybe even default to "no test").
> > > 
> > > I think "no test" should be the default; STR working sanely on x86 is 
> > > unfortunately too much a surprise.  Someone more active in PM testing 
> > > should update that.
> > 
> > All i'm asking for is to make the self-test easily accessible. Not for 
> > it to blow up in the face of users who do not ask for it.
> 
> I'm all for that, but also I don't want to see it blow up regularly
> in the face of people who just enable all the selftest options.  The
> other tests have a much better expectation of working "by default".

> > And, at least to me, there seems to be a rather apparent correlation 
> > between "suspend/resume regressions caught as early as possible" and the 
> > future, desired state of: "STR working sanely on x86" ;-)
> 
> Thing is, this will catch not just regressions ... but cases where
> STR never worked in the first place.  Video problems, etc.  Also
> various system startup races, as in the PCMCIA and MMC/SD/SDIO
> cases I noted.

David is right here. At minimum, s2ram needs acpi_sleep=... options to
tell it how to set up the video. That is not issue for you, but it
means we should not be doing it by default.
									Pavel
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