Hi! > > Hmm... how common are these machines? We are using unpatched kernel > > for suse10.2... OTOH we only support machines from the whitelist, all > > I've always said IDE and software suspend are unsafe. The more work I do > the more clearly this is/was the case.
Well, there's unsafe as in "crashes", and that's unsafe as in "eats disks". > The really nasty "resume eats your disk" cases I know about are > thankfully for older systems - VIA KT133 and similar era chipsets. Aha, good. Hopefully noone has notebook with those. > There is a recent nasty - Jmicron goes totally to **** on resume because > of resume quirks not being run but it goes so spectacularly wrong it > doesn't seem to get far enough to corrupt. Good :-). Crashing is nasty, but we probably won't add that machine to whitelist. > Andrew has about 2/3rds of the bits I've done now, will push the rest > when I've done a little more testing/checking. At that point libata ought > to be resume safe. Someone who cares about drivers/ide legacy support can > then copy the work over. Thanks. I do not think we care about old mainboards enough to do 2.6.16-stable backport. 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 [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/