Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume

Pavel Machek
2006-06-16T13:22:51Z

Hi!

> And yes, I admit (and I started off talking about this) that I care a lot
> more about suspend-to-ram than I do about suspend-to-disk. I seriously
> claim that STR _should_ be a lot simpler than suspend-to-disk, because it
> avoids all the memory management problems. The reason that we support
> suspend-to-disk but not STR is totally perverse - it's simply that it has
> been easier to debug, because unlike STR, we can do a "real boot" into a
> working system, and thus we don't have the debugging problems that the
> "easy" suspend/resume case has.

This is one reason, there are two more.

> Which is obviously also why patch 1/2 (and in many way the more
> fundamental one) was about trying to make debugging much simpler. Or at
> least possible.

Yes, 1/2 is pretty clever hack that can't hurt. Debugging s2ram will
still be bad, but probably no longer a nightmare.
Pavel
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