Re: [Swsusp-devel] Re: Dropping CONFIG_PM_DISK?

[Benjamin Herrenschmidt]

On Mon, 2004-03-01 at 22:35, Karol Kozimor wrote:
> Thus wrote Benjamin Herrenschmidt:
> > > - that 2.4 style PM got depreciated and let die before the
> > >    "new-driver-model" PM is workin
> > Except that it never worked
> > > - that perfectly good drivers were rewritten from scratch,
> > >    but without functioning PM support
> > Please, give names.
> 
> USB UHCI driver could be a fine example of a regression -- it could survive
> suspend in 2.4 under certain conditions, this is no longer true for 2.6.

Well, it may have survived by mere luck... the fact is that 2.4 never
had an infrastructure allowing anything remotely safe for
suspend/resume.

> There's also a great deal of people, who can't resume when AGP is being 
> used -- that is again a regression over 2.4.
>
> The above are major showstoppers for most laptop users that already got
> used to stable and reliable swsusp and hence prefer to stick with 2.4.

There haven't been a regression in the AGP drivers themselves afaik.

Ben.


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