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On Thursday 25 November 2004 07:02, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > On Wed, Nov 24, 2004 at 01:57:58PM -0800, Jan Rychter wrote: > > Obviously you have never actually tried to use software suspend in real > > life. > > > > I would kindly suggest that you try to use it on your laptop for at > > least several weeks in various circumstances. These features are a > > result of years of user experience. Lets say <UNDERLINE><BOLD>THOUSANDS OF MAN YEARS</UNDERLINE></BOLD> > > I tend to buy laptops that just suspend when closing the lid, and no, I never > had the strange desired to immediately reverse my choice. Neither do I want > to stop the shutdown that I just initiated. Perhaps many less fortunate "users" ;) (_including_ myself), can change their minds anytime and open the lid again. Thus, IMHO support for "changing ones mind" is imperative. As to reboot, we hardly use it: - Test partitions get reset with the yournal doing the dirty work. - The main partition gets rebooted only: - when some stupid app(s) leaked all memory away and we are out of swap ... sometimes weekly :-( - for (monthly) fsck. - when updating glibc twice a year or so Dependable and flexible software suspend is a way of life yet to be experienced by many. Offtopic, IMO a garbage collector is highly desirable... Michael - 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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