Re: When will the lunacy end? (Was Re: [PATCH] uswsusp: add pmops->{prepare,enter,finish} support (aka "platform mode"))

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Tuesday, 26 September 2006 22:14, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 26, 2006 at 12:45:00AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> >...
> > solid)
> > 	apart from HIGHMEM64G fiasco, and related agpgart fiasco long
> > 	time before that... these are driver problems...
> >...
> 
> One point that seems to be a bit forgotten is that driver problems do 
> actually matter a lot:
> 
> I for one do not care much whether I can abort suspending (I can always 
> resume) or whether dancing penguins are displayed during suspending - 
> but the fact that my saa7134 card only outputs the picture but no sound 
> after resuming from suspend-to-disk is a real show-stopper for me.

Certainly, but neither me, nor Pavel can fix all drivers with suspend-related
problems.

I think the only way to get the drivers' problems fixed eventually is to file
bug reports in bugzilla and generally complain about them to the people
who write/maintain these drivers.

Greetings,
Rafael


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