Re: [TRIVIAL] sanitize power management config menus

Pavel Machek
2003-07-27T11:29:59Z

Hi!

> | > 3. The help text for Software Suspend (not part of this patch)
> | > really needs some help. Would you address that or shall I?
> |
> | Sure, it would be nice if you could fish out an entry from somewhere.
>
> OK, how's this look?

Hey, I had similar patch in queue somewhere.

> --- ./arch/i386/Kconfig~swshelp 2003-07-25 10:23:11.000000000 -0700
> +++ ./arch/i386/Kconfig 2003-07-26 20:30:50.000000000 -0700
> @@ -824,27 +824,27 @@
> bool "Software Suspend (EXPERIMENTAL)"
> depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PM && SWAP
> ---help---
> - Enable the possibilty of suspendig machine. It doesn't need APM.
> - You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z '
> - (patch for sysvinit needed).
> -
> - It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. By the next
> - booting the, pass 'resume=/path/to/your/swap/file' and kernel will
> - detect the saved image, restore the memory from
> - it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended.
> - If you don't want the previous state to continue use the 'noresume'
> - kernel option. However note that your partitions will be fsck'd and
> - you must re-mkswap your swap partitions/files.
> + Enable the possibility of suspending the machine. It doesn't need
> + APM. You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z '
> + (patch for sysvinit is needed).
> +
> + This creates an image which is saved in your active swap space. On
> + the next boot, pass the 'resume=/path/to/your/swap/file' option and

Swap *files* are no longer supported. Swap partitions work.

> + the kernel will detect the saved image, restore the memory from it,
> + and then continue to run as before you suspended.
> + If you don't want the previous state to continue, use the 'noresume'
> + kernel option. However, note that your partitions will appear to be
> + damaged so you must re-mkswap your swap partitions/files to use them.
>
> Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
> - in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
> + in the meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were
> involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers
> on disk won't match with saved ones.

I guess we do not want to teach people doing this.

> - SMP is supported __as-is''. There's a code for it but doesn't work.
> - There have been problems reported relating SCSI.
> + SMP is supported __as-is''. There's code for it but doesn't work.
> + There have been problems reported relating to SCSI.

SMP is not supported. Kill the note about SCSI.

> - This option is about getting stable. However there is still some
> + This option is close to getting stable. However there is still some
> absence of features.

Kill this. Saying (EXPERIMENTAL) should be enough.

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Pavel
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