Re: RFC: ACPI/scsi/libata integration and hotswap

Jeff Garzik
2005-12-09T11:29:08Z

Mark Lord wrote:
> Jeff Garzik wrote:
>
>> Erik Slagter wrote:
>>
>>> 'guess You're not interested in having suspend/resume actually work on
>>> laptops (or other PC's). That's your prerogative but imho it's a bit
>>> narrow-minded to withhold this functionality from other people who
>>> actually would like to have this working, just because you happen to not
>>> like ACPI.
>>
>>
>>
>> It works just fine on laptops, with Jens' suspend/resume patch.
>>
>> Jeff
>
>
> No. I use it on my two modern laptops with great success,
> but only with *certain* hard disks. When I replace the ultra modern
> 100GB drive in my machine with a slightly older 30GB drive,
> suspend/resume no longer work. No other changes.
>
> Other users have reported similar experiences to me.
>
> We really REALLY need libata to get fixed for this stuff.

Patches welcome :) There is a bunch of stuff that needs to be done for
suspend/resume. Saving/restoring settings, additional resets and
probes, etc.

Jeff