FC6 and laptop suspend/resume: should be a high priority bug

Dave Jones davej at redhat.com
Fri Sep 22 21:30:58 UTC 2006


On Fri, Sep 22, 2006 at 01:12:14PM -0500, Paul Johnson wrote:
 > The last kernel on which my Dell D820 latitude would suspend & resume
 > was 2.6.16.  For the last two months or so---all of th 2.6.17
 > versions--have failed.  The systems suspend, but don't resume.
 > 
 > There are plenty of reports like this in bugzilla.redhat.com.  My
 > opinion is that FC6 should not be released as final until the problem
 > is addressed.  What do you think?

Not really. If we held up the release for every machine that didn't
suspend/resume, we'd never ship anything.

The only real blocker items wrt to the kernel are

"doesn't install"
"doesn't boot"
"can't download updates"
"corrupts data"

	Dave




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