From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Len Brown <lenb@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 2.6.21-rc7] kconfig mentioneds 'hibernation'
	not just swsusp
Date: Sat, 21 Apr 2007 23:21:02 -0400
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>  	  In principle it does not require ACPI or APM, although for example
> -	  ACPI will be used if available.
> +	  ACPI will be used for the final steps when it is available.  One
> +	  of the reasons to use software suspend is that the firmware hooks
> +	  for suspend states like suspend-to-RAM (STR) often don't work very
> +	  well with Linux.

I don't think the help section of a config options
is a good place for editorial.

-Len