Re: [WISHLIST] Addition of suspend patch into 2.5?

Mikulas Patocka (mikulas@artax.karlin.mff.cuni.cz)
Fri, 6 Apr 2001 00:34:38 +0200 (CEST)


Hi!

> > Any idea if suspend/hybernation will be in future kernels?
>
> I'd like it included, too. Some toshiba laptops support sleep but not
> suspend, and battery runs out within few hours if it was low before
> suspend. That's bad.
>
> And the patch was pretty clean last time I checked.
> Pavel

Clean? I think it is impossible to write hibernation properly without
adding suspend/resume hooks to all drivers. And I doubt anybody is able to
do it.

If we don't rewrite all drivers, hibernation will be just a 'cool feature'
that doesn't work most time.

Mikulas

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