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From: Mark Lord <lkml@rtr.ca>
To: Alan Stern <stern@rowland.harvard.edu>
Cc: Maxim Levitsky <maximlevitsky@gmail.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged
Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:03:25 -0400	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <460BE34D.7050603@rtr.ca> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.44L0.0703291155000.3108-100000@iolanthe.rowland.org>

Alan Stern wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007, Mark Lord wrote:
>
>> Mmm.. this sounds really bad -- I wonder what happens if the rootfs is on USB ?
> 
> The system crashes as soon as it resumes.  As you might expect.
> 
>> With older kernels, things just "worked" this way.  Has it now been broken ??
> 
> No; it has never worked.  Your memory of how older kernels behaved is wrong.

Ah. Perhaps my Kubuntu system was using a FreeBSD kernel under the hood back then.
It really did work for me, back about 2 years ago when last attempted.
But then suspend/resume (RAM) has always worked here on every notebook
I've ever used -- apparently not the norm for others.  I just expect more.

> P.S.: Help is on the way.  I will soon submit a patch to help improve the situation.

That would be very good to see.

-ml

      reply	other threads:[~2007-03-29 16:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-27 16:24 USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged Maxim Levitsky
2007-03-27 17:15 ` Alan Stern
2007-03-27 17:54   ` Maxim
2007-03-27 18:05   ` Pete Zaitcev
2007-03-27 23:29     ` Maxim
2007-04-01 15:29       ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 17:42         ` David Zeuthen
2007-04-01 17:50           ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 18:01             ` David Zeuthen
2007-04-01 18:29               ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 18:26             ` Alan Stern
2007-04-01 18:34               ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-01 20:53                 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-02  2:54                   ` Alan Stern
2007-04-02 20:37                     ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2007-04-02 18:38               ` Chuck Ebbert
2007-04-02 19:36                 ` Pavel Machek
2007-04-06 22:23                   ` Nigel Cunningham
2007-04-02 14:49             ` Mark Lord
2007-04-02 18:28               ` Pavel Machek
2007-03-29 13:19 ` Mark Lord
2007-03-29 15:56   ` Alan Stern
2007-03-29 16:03     ` Mark Lord [this message]

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