From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932789AbWKSS0z (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:26:55 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932790AbWKSS0z (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:26:55 -0500 Received: from [212.33.187.4] ([212.33.187.4]:60032 "EHLO localhost.localdomain") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932789AbWKSS0y (ORCPT ); Sun, 19 Nov 2006 13:26:54 -0500 From: Al Boldi To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 21:30:11 +0300 User-Agent: KMail/1.5 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline Message-Id: <200611192130.11542.a1426z@gawab.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Mike Galbraith wrote: > On Sun, 2006-11-19 at 09:33 -0800, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > When doing 'make oldconfig' we should ask about suspend/resume > > > debug features when SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not enabled. > > > > That's wrong. > > > > I never use SOFTWARE_SUSPEND, and I think the whole concept is totally > > broken. > > > > Sane people use suspend-to-ram, and that's when you need the suspend and > > resume debugging. > > Here I am wishing I had the _opportunity_ to be sane. With my ATI X850 > AGP card, I have no choices except swsusp or reboot. You make it sound like suspend-to-ram is dependent on a correct display adapter to work; it doesn't even work on a machine without a display adapter. see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7037 Thanks! -- Al