From: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
To: Mike Galbraith <efault@gmx.de>
Subject: Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on  SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
Date: Sun, 19 Nov 2006 19:58:14 +0100
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Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>,
       Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>,
       linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
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On Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:52, 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.

Have you tried s2ram (http://en.opensuse.org/S2ram)?

Rafael


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