Messages in this thread |  | | | From | "Rafael J. Wysocki" <> | | Subject | Re: [patch] PM: suspend/resume debugging should depend on SOFTWARE_SUSPEND | | Date | Sun, 19 Nov 2006 18:44:13 +0100 |
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On Sunday, 19 November 2006 18:33, Linus Torvalds wrote: > > On Sun, 19 Nov 2006, Chuck Ebbert wrote: > > > > When doing 'make oldconfig' we should ask about suspend/resume > > debug features when SOFTWARE_SUSPEND is not enabled. > > That's wrong. > > I never use SOFTWARE_SUSPEND, and I think the whole concept is totally > broken. > > Sane people use suspend-to-ram, and that's when you need the suspend and > resume debugging. > > Software-suspend is silly. I want my machine back in three seconds, not > waiting for minutes..
In fact that's up to 30 seconds on a modern box, usually less than that.
And suspend-to-ram doesn't work on quilte a lot of boxes right now. Also, you can use the software suspend on boxes that don't support the suspend-to-ram at all.
Greetings, Rafael
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