Re: [PATCH] Freeze bdevs when freezing processes.

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Oct 23 2006 - 18:13:51 EST


On Monday, 23 October 2006 23:39, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Oct 23, 2006 at 10:50:22AM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
>
> > Apparently uswsusp has gained support for S3 while the in-kernel driver
> > does not support S3. That's disappointing.
>
> I'm still not sure why that's an especially desirable feature.

Well, I know of at least one user of it (not me). ;-)

> Every laptop I've played with will automatically resume from S3 when the
> battery level becomes critical, which gives you the opportunity to
> suspend to disk. And when it doesn't, you can generally emulate it using
> the ACPI alarm to wake up. Is there really a significant quantity of
> hardware out there that doesn't support either of these?

I think there is.


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You never change things by fighting the existing reality.
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