Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-19T17:47:55Z

On Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:33, Linus Torvalds wrote:
>
> On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> >
> > When doing 'make oldconfig' we should ask about suspend/resume
> > debug features when SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not enabled.
>
> That's wrong.
>
> I never use SOFTWARE_SUSPEND, and I think the whole concept is totally
> broken.
>
> Sane people use suspend-to-ram, and that's when you need the suspend and
> resume debugging.
>
> Software-suspend is silly. I want my machine back in three seconds, not
> waiting for minutes..

In fact that's up to 30 seconds on a modern box, usually less than that.

And suspend-to-ram doesn't work on quilte a lot of boxes right now. Also, you
can use the software suspend on boxes that don't support the suspend-to-ram
at all.

Greetings,
Rafael

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