Re: [2/6] 2.6.21-rc2: known regressions

From: Pavel Machek
Date: Sat Mar 10 2007 - 17:08:46 EST


Hi!

> > Ok. To be honest, you are the first reporter that seems to have read
> > the documentation above, but not understood what to do.
>
> thanks for the compliment ;-) _I_ very much know what to do (i mailed
> the right person after all ;), but i dont really count and on the 6

(Can we get the whitelist entries?)

> > i might consider reworking the documentation if there are more reports
> > about problems with the procedure.
>
> Probably tweaking the webpage doesnt help because people dont get there
> - as the results plainly show it. Maybe some more automation would be
> useful too, a tool that detects failed resume and tries all those
> options that makes sense on that box or something? It's not like
> that

Unfortunately, these tend to crash the box when you pass wrong
options, and I do not see easy way to test "can user see whats on
display" automatically.

Feel free to send patches, but I do not think it is easy/possible.

Pavel
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