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

[Al Boldi]

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.

You make it sound like suspend-to-ram is dependent on a correct display 
adapter to work; it doesn't even work on a machine without a display 
adapter.

see http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=7037


Thanks!

--
Al

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