From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1030283AbXC2QD1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:03:27 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1030326AbXC2QD1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:03:27 -0400 Received: from ottawa-hs-64-26-128-89.s-ip.magma.ca ([64.26.128.89]:2895 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1030283AbXC2QD1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:03:27 -0400 Message-ID: <460BE34D.7050603@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 29 Mar 2007 12:03:25 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 1.5.0.10 (X11/20070221) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Alan Stern Cc: Maxim Levitsky , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, gregkh@suse.de, Andrew Morton Subject: Re: USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged References: In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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