Re: echo mem > /sys/power/state

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Thu Jan 17 2008 - 14:14:30 EST


On Thu, 17 Jan 2008 10:36:51 -0700 Zan Lynx <zlynx@xxxxxxx> wrote:

>
> On Wed, 2008-01-16 at 22:24 -0800, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > So I take everyone's latest and greatest product and injudiciously type the
> > above command. The result five minutes later is at
> > http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/borkage.jpg. See if you can count all the bugs.
> >
> > Sorry, but I've had it with this stuff and I'm tired of fixing everyone else's
> > stuff. I'm just going to ship it. Good luck.
>
> Heh. Laptop suspend to anything has been so broken for so long in the
> -mm series on my Compaq R3000 that I didn't even know it was ever
> supposed to work.

It gets broken more often than anything else. I do test each release on
two laptops and I get to do a lot of bisection searching and
grumpygramming as a result.

Probably it would be more efficient to have the people who wrote the code
also test it.
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