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

Rafael J. Wysocki
2006-11-19T19:01:35Z

On Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:52, Mike Galbraith wrote:
> On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 09:33 -0800, 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.
>
> Here I am wishing I had the _opportunity_ to be sane. With my ATI X850
> AGP card, I have no choices except swsusp or reboot.

Have you tried s2ram (http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram)?

Rafael

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