Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management?

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Mon Feb 12 2007 - 15:56:02 EST


On Monday, 12 February 2007 13:59, Gerhard Mack wrote:
> On Sun, 11 Feb 2007, Willy Tarreau wrote:
>
> > On Sun, Feb 11, 2007 at 09:37:06AM +1100, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 23:20 +0100, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> >
> > Many people also have Linux on their notebooks, but as a dual-boot. You
> > read the word ? "dual-boot". It means that they cleanly shutdown their
> > system every time they don't use it anymore, and they won't know what
> > OS they'll use next time.
>
> Please tell me your joking. Linux' crappy suspend support is a common
> reason people give me for not wanting Linux anywhere near their laptops.
>
> I have a single boot laptop that's somewhat of a mobile debugging station
> that needs Linux and I absolutely hate it. Right now my laptop takes far
> too long to boot and even if it didn't I wish I could suspend.

When did you try last time?

Rafael
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