From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S263298AbTJ0FSP (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:18:15 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S263760AbTJ0FSP (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:18:15 -0500 Received: from smtp1.clear.net.nz ([203.97.33.27]:4831 "EHLO smtp1.clear.net.nz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S263298AbTJ0FSN (ORCPT ); Mon, 27 Oct 2003 00:18:13 -0500 Date: Mon, 27 Oct 2003 18:17:59 +1300 From: Nigel Cunningham Subject: re: Linux 2.6 features list update In-reply-to: To: John Mock Cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List Message-id: <1067231878.26324.2.camel@laptop-linux> Organization: MIME-version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Ximian Evolution 1.2.2 Content-type: text/plain Content-transfer-encoding: 7bit References: Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org I don't use it myself, but I believe some of the users of the 2.4 version (which is what has just been ported to 2.6) are successfully utilising USB and ieee1394 there (without the driver model!). There's no great difference in the ported version, so it should work or be able to be made to work with the port, even if (unlikely) there's something fundamentally different in Patrick & Pavel's implementations that will prohibit it from working. Regards. Nigel On Mon, 2003-10-27 at 17:55, John Mock wrote: > I think the section entitled "Laptops" is overly optimistic. First, > as far as i know, suspend-to-disk has only this week been announced > (on this mailing list) for anything other than the i386 platform, and > even there, many laptops only marginally work with software suspend/ > suspend-to-disk. I really doubt that any file system utilizing USB or > ieee1394 is going to work reliably (if at all) with suspend for many > laptops in the near future. I think the 2.6.0 shakedown and the amount > of attention (or lack thereof) given to suspend-related bugs makes it > clear that suspend-to-disk/software suspend is still experimental in > this release. > > I sincerely hope that changes very soon and i will do what i can to > help. Meanwhile, please qualify that section to read: > > ... now supports full software-suspend-to-disk functionality on many > ------- > laptops for the Linux user on the go. > ------- [emphasis to show added text] > > It's definitely improved, but in many instances (especially where the > laptop manufacturer has not provided full hardware/BIOS documentation), > it does not work well and may be difficult to make reliable in the near > future. > > Respectfully submitted, > -- JM > - > To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in > the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org > More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html > Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/ -- Nigel Cunningham 495 St Georges Road South, Hastings 4201, New Zealand Evolution (n): A hypothetical process whereby infinitely improbable events occur with alarming frequency, order arises from chaos, and no one is given credit.