Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

[Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>]

* Stefan Seyfried <seife@suse.de> wrote:

> > btw., the s2ram database seems quite a bit spotty:
> > 
> >  $ ./s2ram -n
> >  Machine is unknown.
> >  This machine can be identified by:
> >      sys_vendor   = "System manufacturer"
> >      sys_product  = "System Product Name"
> >      sys_version  = "System Version"
> >      bios_version = "ASUS A8N-E ACPI BIOS Revision 1008"
> > 
> >  $ ./s2ram -n
> >  Machine is unknown.
> >  This machine can be identified by:
> >     sys_vendor   = "Hewlett-Packard "
> >     sys_product  = "compaq nx9030 (PG630ET#ABD)       "
> >     sys_version  = "Rev 1           "
> >     bios_version = "F.15    "
> >  See http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram for details.
> > 
> > even at the link above i didnt find any clear algorithm about how to 
> > extend the quirks-list and the white-list - while i expect that most 
> > people experience what i did: that s2ram doesnt know their boxes. 
> > (otherwise they would not visit that URL at all i suspect)
> 
> Ok. To be honest, you are the first reporter that seems to have read 
> the documentation above, but not understood what to do.

thanks for the compliment ;-) _I_ very much know what to do (i mailed 
the right person after all ;), but i dont really count and on the 6 
systems i tried s2ram said on 5 that it's 'unknown', i assumed it could 
possibly be due to the visible lack of clear instructions on that 
webpage ;-)

> i might consider reworking the documentation if there are more reports 
> about problems with the procedure.

Probably tweaking the webpage doesnt help because people dont get there 
- as the results plainly show it. Maybe some more automation would be 
useful too, a tool that detects failed resume and tries all those 
options that makes sense on that box or something? It's not like that 
people dont _try_ suspend/resume on Linux, it's just that they find it 
doesnt work and there is no clear mortal-usable (end-user-) way of 
fixing it and submitting the result of that fixing.

	Ingo