Date: Fri, 3 Feb 2006 02:23:05 -0800
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
To: Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk>
Cc: rlrevell@joe-job.com, pavel@ucw.cz, nigel@suspend2.net, torvalds@osdl.org,
       linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.
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Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@chiark.greenend.org.uk> wrote:
>
> (By and large, the biggest problem is repeated kernel regressions that
>  hit suspend in bizarre ways. This doesn't get picked up on quickly
>  because almost nobody is using this code, because "everyone knows" it
>  doesn't work. Except it /does/. What we need is for distributions to
>  actually work together on this, rather than everyone trying to fix the
>  same problems independently, each coming up with different solutions and
>  the world generally being a miserable place)

Is it still the case that swsusp requries that the disk drivers be
statically linked into vmlinux?

If so, I'd have thought that this was quite a problem for distros,
although I have a vague feeling that RH worked around it in some manner.
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