From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Pavel Machek Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Fix console handling during suspend/resume Date: Fri, 16 Jun 2006 15:42:25 +0200 Message-ID: <20060616134225.GD1666@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20060614103404.GC28536@elf.ucw.cz> <1150420919.7725.75.camel@localhost.localdomain> <200606152135.49527.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="iso-8859-1" Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable Return-path: Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org Errors-To: linux-pm-bounces@lists.osdl.org To: Linus Torvalds Cc: David Brownell , linux-pm@lists.osdl.org List-Id: linux-pm@vger.kernel.org Hi! > That said, I think it's not unreasonable to want to be able to resume fro= m = > a USB disk at least in theory. Even if the rules very much would be that = > you'd better not move that disk to any other machine, or do other strange = > things. I think those rules would be _very_ understandable to your averag= e = > user, who wouldn't really even expect it to work. > = > (Evil thought: It _would_ be pretty cool if you could take your work with = > you home by moving the resume disk to an identical machine at home > ;) You can probably do that. With *identical* hardware, and make sure you take _all_ non volatile storage with you. Given identical hardware, you may also abuse suspend.sf.net fucntionality to migrate images over network. Oh and suspend to USB disk _should_ work today; its just very bad idea if you modify something on that disk or so... Pavel -- = (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blo= g.html