Re: 2.6.18-rc4 (and earlier): CMOS clock corruption during suspend to disk on i386

[Rafael J. Wysocki]

On Monday 14 August 2006 00:33, Pavel Machek wrote:
> On Thu 2006-08-10 22:51:20, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
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> > > > > BTW, it's a dangerous setting, because some drivers get mad if the time after
> > > > > the resume appears to be earlier than the time before the suspend.  Also the
> > > > > timer .suspend/.resume routines aren't prepared for that.
> > > > 
> > > > Its config option should just go away. People comfortable using *that*
> > > > should just edit some header file. Rafael, could you do patch doing
> > > > something like that?
> > > 
> > > Just remove the option from Kconfig or the whole setting?
> > > 
> > > Shouldn't we also change the timer .resume() routines to check if the time
> > > after the resume is later than (or at least the same as) the time before the
> > > suspend and set the "sleep length" to 0 if not?
> > 
> > Hm, I'm thinking it may actually be useful to have in Kconfig and if we change
> > the timer resume to detect the dangerous situation and prevent it from
> > happening, that should be sufficient.
> 
> Well, it is still too easy to shoot yourself in the foot. Your time
> will be wrong if you enable innocent-sounding option.

We can add DANGEROUS to it. :-)

Rafael
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