Re: [ACPI] Re: [2.5.50, ACPI] link error

[Ducrot Bruno <ducrot@poupinou.org>]

On Fri, Dec 06, 2002 at 01:06:18AM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > Doesn't that imply your fix is broken to begin with?
> > > 
> > > ACPI/S4 support needs swsusp. ACPI/S3 needs big part of
> > > swsusp. Splitting CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP to S3 and S4 part seems like
> > > overdesign to me, OTOH if you do the work it is okay with me.
> > 
> > You broke the design. S3 support was developed long before swsusp was in 
> > the kernel, and completely indpendent of it. It should have remained that 
> > way. 
> > 
> > S3 support is a subset of what is need for S4 support. 
> 
> That's not true. acpi_wakeup.S is nasty piece of code, needed for S3
> but not for S4. Big part of driver support is only needed for S3.
> 
> > swsusp is an implementation of S4 support. In theory, there could be 
> > multiple implementations that all use the same core (saving/restoring 
> > state). 
> 
> There were patches for S4bios floating around, but it never really
> worked, IIRC.

No.  It work.  I do not resubmmited patches because I think that
swsusp is better.

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