Re: S2RAM and PCI quirks

["Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>]

On Wednesday, 8 November 2006 17:01, Alan Cox wrote:
> Ar Mer, 2006-11-08 am 16:48 +0100, ysgrifennodd Arjan van de Ven:
> > at the same time I'm not 100% convinced it's ok to always run all quirks
> > at resume, for one the difference is that there now is a driver active
> > owning the device... Almost sounds like having a per quirk flag stating
> > "run at resume" is needed ;-(
> 
> We probably need a quirk class for resume in this situation. The kind of
> things that worry me if we are not doing the quirk handling, and what I
> suspect happened in the case I looked at are that chipset bug
> workarounds did not get restored, and in this case the older VIA chipset
> involved then corrupted DMA streams and trashed the users disk.

Now that would explain why many boxes resume from disk correctly, but don't
resume from RAM by any means.

Greetings,
Rafael


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