I'm thinking of going to the 2.5 kernels to get the ACPI S3 support, but 
I'm having trouble with devfs, which seems to be not quite working in 
the 2.5 series from my reading of kernel-devel.  Has this been resolved? 
 Anyone out there using devfs in a 2.5 kernel?

Sebastian Henschel wrote:

>heyho...
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>Received at 2003-03-06 / 12:19 by Gertjan:
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>>I was wondering if suspend support for ACPI is already implemented. Which
>>kernel must I use if I want my laptop to support suspending. My laptop is
>>an ASUS L3400D with a SiS chip set in it. It has no support for APM so I
>>really would like to have support for suspend-to-RAM. Can somebody tell me
>>what versions to use, or if it is still unsupported.
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>take one of the recent 2.5.x kernels if you really need it. but i cannot
>say if it will work for your laptop. :)
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>with kernel 2.4.x you maybe can have standby (S1) with the acpi-patch
>and suspend-to-disk (S4) with the swsusp-patch
>(http://fchabaud.free.fr/English/default.php3?COUNT=3&FILE0=Tricks&FILE1=Laptop&FILE2=Swsusp). but no suspend-to-ram (S3) as far as i know.
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>>Please correct me if I am asking this question in the wrong mailing-list.
>>The reason I am posting it here is that I am inquiring the stage of
>>development...
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>that is okay, acpi4linux is still under heavy development, so the border
>between devel and user is very thin (though i would have posted it in
>acpi-support).
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>cheers,
> sebastian
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