Messages in this thread | | | From | John Mock <> | Subject | re: Linux 2.6 features list update | Date | Sun, 26 Oct 2003 20:55:49 -0800 |
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I think the section entitled "Laptops" is overly optimistic. First, as far as i know, suspend-to-disk has only this week been announced (on this mailing list) for anything other than the i386 platform, and even there, many laptops only marginally work with software suspend/ suspend-to-disk. I really doubt that any file system utilizing USB or ieee1394 is going to work reliably (if at all) with suspend for many laptops in the near future. I think the 2.6.0 shakedown and the amount of attention (or lack thereof) given to suspend-related bugs makes it clear that suspend-to-disk/software suspend is still experimental in this release.
I sincerely hope that changes very soon and i will do what i can to help. Meanwhile, please qualify that section to read:
... now supports full software-suspend-to-disk functionality on many ------- laptops for the Linux user on the go. ------- [emphasis to show added text]
It's definitely improved, but in many instances (especially where the laptop manufacturer has not provided full hardware/BIOS documentation), it does not work well and may be difficult to make reliable in the near future.
Respectfully submitted, -- JM - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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