From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1761489AbXGMCi2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:38:28 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1757550AbXGMCiU (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:38:20 -0400 Received: from rtr.ca ([64.26.128.89]:3583 "EHLO mail.rtr.ca" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1755637AbXGMCiT (ORCPT ); Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:38:19 -0400 Message-ID: <4696E598.4010609@rtr.ca> Date: Thu, 12 Jul 2007 22:38:16 -0400 From: Mark Lord User-Agent: Thunderbird 2.0.0.4 (X11/20070604) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Jeremy Maitin-Shepard Cc: "Rafael J. Wysocki" , david@lang.hm, Jeremy Fitzhardinge , Andrew Morton , "Huang, Ying" , Pavel Machek , nigel@nigel.suspend2.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/2] Kexec jump: The first step to kexec base hibernation References: <1184167831.12556.13.camel@caritas-dev.intel.com> <200707121446.14170.rjw@sisk.pl> <469631FA.2070405@rtr.ca> <200707121735.40077.rjw@sisk.pl> <469650DE.4000901@rtr.ca> <46965837.8030907@rtr.ca> <87y7hl2xro.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> In-Reply-To: <87y7hl2xro.fsf@jbms.ath.cx> 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 Jeremy Maitin-Shepard wrote: > > A typical usage pattern of hibernate on a laptop is to shut the lid, > causing the system to start to hibernate, and to place the machine in All laptops we have here, and those of all people I have seen with laptops, do suspend-to-RAM on lid-close, not hibernate. And even then, I generally wait to verify that the machine actually did shut down, simply because the one time I didn't wait, Linux failed to shutdown. Which was discovered hours later at the end of the journey, when a very hot notebook with a dead battery was unpacked. Ugh. Cheers