Re: suspend2 merge (was Re: [Suspend2-devel] Re: CFS and suspend2:hang in atomic copy)

Romano Giannetti
2007-04-25T09:35:36Z

On Wed, 2007-04-25 at 07:23 +0000, Pavel Machek wrote:
> suspend-to-disk is a workaround for
>
> 'suspend-to-ram eats too much power' (plus some details like
> being able to replace battery).
>

...and let me add 'suspend-to-disk' is a workaround for when s2ram does
not work for a gazillion interacting reasons (ACPI, vga bios, drm/dri,
you name it).
I am quite happy with s2ram now on my AMD-based vaio, but it started to
work with 2.6.17 kernels (Ubuntu Edgy, really), and the three years
before that suspend-to-disk (sometime Pavel's, sometime Nigel's)
saved the day (yes, it's quite faster to use suspend-to-disk that doing
shutdown, reboot, and re-open all the applications).

So, please do not dismiss suspend-to-disk as "crap". It has its place
under the sun.

Romano

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