From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: 2.6.13-mm1: swsusp problem (was: PCMCIA problem)
Date: Fri, 2 Sep 2005 16:17:42 +0200
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       Greg KH <greg@kroah.com>
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On Friday, 2 of September 2005 13:45, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Friday, 2 of September 2005 13:09, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz> wrote:
> > >
> > > > One more piece of information.  This is the one that loops:
> > >  > 
> > >  > echo 30 > /sys/class/firmware/timeout
> > > 
> > >  Try echo -n ...
> > 
> > Or revert gregkh-driver-sysfs-strip_leading_trailing_whitespace.patch. 
> > Obviously if you write 30\n and the write returns 2 then the shell will
> > then try to write the \n.  That returns zero and the shell tries again, ad
> > infinitum.
> > 
> > Rant.  It took me two full days to weed out and fix all the crap people
> > sent me to get -mm1 into a state where it vaguely compiled and booted.  And
> > it's untested nonsense like this which wrecks the whole effort for many
> > testers.
> > 
> > I suppose this is as good as anything....
> 
> Thanks for the fix. :-)
> 
> Now, (using the fact that Pavel already is in the CC list ;-)) there's another
> issue I have with swsusp, which is broken in a funny way.  Namely, after
> resuming from disk the box immediately goes into standby from which it
> can be woken up by pressing the power button, but then it oopses,
> goes into standby (or something similar) again, and hangs solid (unfortunately
> I can't get the traces right now).

Sorry for the noise.  This problem has been fixed by the same patch (ie suspend
is initiated by writing a string to a file on sysfs etc.).

Greetings,
Rafael


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