Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sun, 1 Apr 2007 20:29:45 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: USB: on suspend to ram/disk all usb devices are replugged |
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Hi!
> > Problem is that suspending _with_ removable mass storage devices > > attached just will not work. User will unplug them, then complain > > about corruption. Advanced user will unplug them, work with them > > somewhere else, replug them, then loose filesystem. > > > > Feel free to send patch to teach filesystems to handle this. > > I was suggesting in the Bugzilla that the file system should actually do > this. I don't have a patch for this, sorry.
Unfortunately it is a _lot_ of work, so noone has time for that :-(.
> > Check your facts. Laptops do not melt. I know, I put them into my bed, > > covered with pillow, and let them complain (evo 560c). ACPI thermals > > can handle that. > > Some laptops may severely overheat especially if the backlight is not > turned off (See: Apple hardware). Pretending that all hardware "just > works" or that all drivers "just work" is nice but not really useful in > the real life especially when we're talking about damaging hardware.
Apple should fix their hardware, then. And you should not run Linux there, because their hardware is broken; they assume OS X. Pavel -- (english) http://www.livejournal.com/~pavelmachek (cesky, pictures) http://atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~pavel/picture/horses/blog.html - 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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