Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

Hi!

> Just a small adition to the 2.5 whislist:
> Is "hibernation" on linux possible? Ideally it should write out on the /

I just said it is. However you definitely do not want to write it onto 
filesystem -- that's much too hard. But you can write it to the swap space,
and that's exactly what the patch does.

> running on ext2fs and the new journaling fs's like reiserfs, xfs, etx3 etc
> and not some special filesystem or unpartiotioned space etc. I mean that
> this should be working without the need to repartiotion/reinstall.
> This is something **very** useful for laptop owners, not having to shut 
> down (all) applications when need to grab the laptop and travel.
> Id' like to see this working nice in 2.6.
> 
> Best regards,
> r
> 
> On Thu, 22 Feb 2001, Pavel Machek wrote:
> 
> > Date: Thu, 22 Feb 2001 21:43:08 +0100
> > From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
> > To: Shawn Starr <spstarr@sh0n.net>, lkm <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
> > Subject: Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?
> > 
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > Any idea if suspend/hybernation will be in future kernels?
> > 
> > I'd like it included, too. Some toshiba laptops support sleep but not
> > suspend, and battery runs out within few hours if it was low before
> > suspend. That's bad.
> > 
> > And the patch was pretty clean last time I checked.
> > 								Pavel
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