Re: [ 00/10] [Suspend2] Modules support.

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Fri Feb 03 2006 - 05:21:54 EST


Matthew Garrett <mgarrett@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> (By and large, the biggest problem is repeated kernel regressions that
> hit suspend in bizarre ways. This doesn't get picked up on quickly
> because almost nobody is using this code, because "everyone knows" it
> doesn't work. Except it /does/. What we need is for distributions to
> actually work together on this, rather than everyone trying to fix the
> same problems independently, each coming up with different solutions and
> the world generally being a miserable place)

Is it still the case that swsusp requries that the disk drivers be
statically linked into vmlinux?

If so, I'd have thought that this was quite a problem for distros,
although I have a vague feeling that RH worked around it in some manner.
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