[linux-pm] Some thoughts on suspend/resume development

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Hi.

On Sun, 2005-03-06 at 15:02, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> On Sat, 2005-03-05 at 17:00 -0500, Alan Stern wrote:
> 
> > 
> > It's Ben who sees the disadvantages; I was merely echoing his comments.  
> > Maybe I should bow out at this point and let him speak for himself.  :-)
> 
> Well, I've always had reliable STR without any kind of refrigerator on
> pmac, and I beleive that fast suspend is very important. (How many
> people just close the laptop lid and pack it up, possibly shaking it
> around even before the hard disk has parked).
> 
> As a _user_ I consider fast STR to be an important feature. The
> refrigerator is slow (and prone to fail). I think it's just not
> necessary for STR.

I'll get on to merging the suspend2 refrigerator changes. They make it
much faster and more reliable.

Regards,

Nigel
-- 
Nigel Cunningham
Software Engineer, Canberra, Australia
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Maintainer of Suspend2 Kernel Patches http://softwaresuspend.berlios.de



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