Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:33, 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.
> 
> Software-suspend is silly. I want my machine back in three seconds, not 
> waiting for minutes..

In fact that's up to 30 seconds on a modern box, usually less than that.

And suspend-to-ram doesn't work on quilte a lot of boxes right now.  Also, you
can use the software suspend on boxes that don't support the suspend-to-ram
at all.

Greetings,
Rafael


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