Re: 2.6.9-rc3 software suspend (pmdisk) stopped working

Mitch DSouza
2004-10-01T10:28:07Z

Thanks Pavel,

I thought i was going barmy. I've reverted back to -rc2 which
pmdisk works flawlessly on my laptop.

Thanks
Mitch

-------- Original Message --------
Subject: Re: 2.6.9-rc3 software suspend (pmdisk) stopped working
Date: Fri, 1 Oct 2004 12:23:51 +0200
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Mitch <Mitch@0Bits.COM>
CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
References: <415C2633.3050802@0Bits.COM>

Hi!

> Anyone noticed that pmdisk software suspend stopped working in -rc3 ?
> In -rc2 it worked just fine. My script was
>
> chvt 1
> echo -n shutdown >/sys/power/disk
> echo -n disk >/sys/power/state
> chvt 7
>
> In -rc3 it appears to write pages out to disk, but never shuts down the
> machine. Is there something else i need to do or am missing ?

You are not missing anything, it is somehow broken. I'll try to find
out what went wrong and fix it. In the meantime, look at -mm series,
it works there.
Pavel