Re: [Suspend2-announce] Nigel's work and the future of Suspend2.

[Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>]

On Thu 09-03-06 15:55:44, Kasper Sandberg wrote:
> On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 12:45 +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > > > Mainline swsusp never worked for me and
> > > > > so with you leaving I am tempted to leave Linux behind after more than
> > > > > ten years and switch to that other OS that at least has working suspend
> > > > > and resume.  
> > > didnt work on my laptop either, or one of my friends where i tried..
> > > however, swsusp2 does..
> > 
> > bugzilla IDs?
> have none, and i know this is very bad, however i didnt feel like i had
> any useful information to contribute, all i get is black screen, nothing
> to syslog, i have no serial port on my laptop..

printk/mdelay seems to work pretty well for swsusp debugging. As does
trying it again with as little modules as possible.

> > Except that suspend2 is not going to be merged, for variety of
> > reasons. One of them is that noone is working on merging it...
> > 
> one of them being the operative word, afaik, nigel was unwilling to work
> on the issues needed for merging for the reason that it wouldnt be
> merged..
> 
> out of personal interrest, why is it that prevents suspend2 from being
> merged?

Mostly doing too much stuff in kernel, see archives for details.

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