Date: Tue, 30 Nov 2004 11:22:21 +0100
From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: kd6pag@qsl.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, perex@suse.cz
Subject: Re: 2.6.10-rc2 on VAIO laptop and PowerMac 8500/G3
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Hi!

> > > The software suspend issue was long and tedious to narrow down.  Yep, as
> > > you suspected, it appears to be specific a driver (or group thereof).  It
> > > appears to happen when the sound subsystem is included.  Attached below 
> > > is the .config and a 'diff' from the losing one to one which works.
> > 
> > Okay, this is for the alsa team then. Somewhere between 2.6.10-rc1 and
> > 2.6.10-rc2, ALSA started breaking swsusp :-(.
> 
> What does "breaking" mean?  The driver fails to suspend the device? 
> Scribbles on memory?

Usually driver hangs during resume or shortly after that. Things like
"failed to initialize hardware and driver not robust enough to deal
with hardware being gone". I've not yet seen scribbling over memory
(and hopefully it stays that way :-).

Oh btw those alsa problems were fixed, IIRC: I think it was "not
restoring PCI config space correctly".
								Pavel
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