Re: echo mem > /sys/power/state

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Thursday, 17 of January 2008, Andrew Morton wrote:
> On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:36:51 -0700 Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 22:24 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > > So I take everyone's latest and greatest product and injudiciously type the
> > > above command.  The result five minutes later is at
> > > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/borkage.jpg.  See if you can count all the bugs.
> > > 
> > > Sorry, but I've had it with this stuff and I'm tired of fixing everyone else's
> > > stuff.  I'm just going to ship it.  Good luck.
> > 
> > Heh.  Laptop suspend to anything has been so broken for so long in the
> > -mm series on my Compaq R3000 that I didn't even know it was ever
> > supposed to work.
> 
> It gets broken more often than anything else.  I do test each release on
> two laptops and I get to do a lot of bisection searching and
> grumpygramming as a result.
> 
> Probably it would be more efficient to have the people who wrote the code
> also test it.

Well, that would certainly help.

I do test all of my patches and generally all of the patches I sign off, but
surely that's not enough.
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