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From: Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
To: Parag Warudkar <kernel-stuff@comcast.net>
Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>, Mark Gross <mgross@linux.intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10?
Date: Fri, 15 Jul 2005 14:32:48 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1121434368.3749.67.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200507142209.11427.kernel-stuff@comcast.net>

> I have always wondered how Windows got it right circa 1995 - Version after 
> version, several different hardwares and it always works reliably. 
> I am using Linux since 1997 and not a single time have I succeeded in getting 
> it to suspend and resume reliably. 

Because Windows at the time used the APM BIOS and the APM BIOS vendors
made sure Windows worked and generally didnt care about more. When the
vendor got it right it worked, indeed Linux back to 1.x will suspend to
disk nicely on an old IBM thinkpad.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2005-07-15 13:35 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200507140912.22532.mgross@linux.intel.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2005-07-15  0:38 ` Why is 2.6.12.2 less stable on my laptop than 2.6.10? Andi Kleen
2005-07-15  1:45   ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-15  2:02     ` Chris Friesen
2005-07-15  2:06       ` Jesper Juhl
2005-07-15  2:09         ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 21:33           ` Mark Gross
2005-07-15  2:16         ` Dave Airlie
2005-07-15 21:39           ` Mark Gross
2005-07-15  2:09     ` Dave Jones
2005-07-15 21:47       ` Mark Gross
2005-07-15 22:19         ` Dave Jones
2005-07-15 22:25         ` David Lang
2005-07-15 23:14         ` Rik van Riel
2005-07-18 21:14           ` Mark Gross
2005-07-19 10:12             ` Paolo Ciarrocchi
2005-07-15  2:09   ` Parag Warudkar
2005-07-15  2:14     ` Andi Kleen
2005-07-15 13:32     ` Alan Cox [this message]
2005-07-14 16:12 Mark Gross
2005-07-14 23:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-15  8:45 ` Pavel Machek

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