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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Subject: Re: Help needed, Re: [Bug #14334] pcmcia suspend regression from
 2.6.31.1 to 2.6.31.2 - Dell Inspiron 600m
Date: Sat, 31 Oct 2009 10:54:57 +1100
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> Put another way: five years ago I would have felt that it could be 
> important that people can suspend and resume while they have a CD-ROM 
> mounted through a PCMCIA IDE card. Or something like that where you want 
> to keep session information.

I think you are a bit too much laptop centric :-) It's sadly still
common in the embedded space to use PCMCIA or Cardbus for ... root
filesystems.

Cheers,
Ben.