sleep/suspend support in kernel (was: rawhide report: 20031211 changes)

[Dave Jones]

On Fri, 2003-12-12 at 21:28, Axel Thimm wrote:
 
> > - CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
> >   Pavel's original version. No-one who has seen the code
> >   can hold their lunch. It's really ugly, I don't trust it a bit.
> > 
> > - CONFIG_PM_DISK
> >   Pat Mochels cleaned up version of Pavel's work.
> >   Not much better, but somewhat better.
> >   Pat no longer works at OSDL, and may not have time to continue
> >   this as much as he previously did, so this may or may not get 
> >   finished, depending on Pat's spare time.
> > 
> > - CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP
> >   AFAIK, nothing to do with the above.
> 
> What about the current swsusp development done by Nigel Cunningham? It
> seems quite active and just yesterday there was the third release
> candidate for 2.0 for both 2.4 and 2.6.

I wasn't aware that there were 2.6 patches for this now, this is a
recent change. Ok, so now there are 4 suspend-to-disk possibilities :-/

	Dave
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