Bug#343440: Resuming from suspend to RAM with 2.6.14-5 fails significantly more often than with 2.6.14-4
On 10/30/06 02:38:52PM +0100, maximilian attems wrote:
> > Last week I switched to Edgy (Ubuntu). While I was still with Debian,
> > I stopped using suspend to RAM (months ago) and used suspend to disk
> > instead. The in-kernel implementation is quite stable on my notebook
> > but sucks in all other aspects (e.g. it is _annoyingly_ slow). Being
> > extra careful when hibernating (old habit from the days when things
> > tended to freeze), my last uptime was 72 days. As a side note I'd
> > suggest (or, rather _beg_) offering suspend2-enabled kernels (see
> > suspend2.net), which works amazingly fast and has a couple of other nice
> > characteristics (better concept, nice community, nice developer
> > (especially in contrast to the in-kernel suspend), etc.). In short:
> > in-kernel suspend works but sucks, suspend2 works and is nice. Easy
> > choice, I'd think :). Should I file a wishlist-bug?
>
> suspend2 adds a gif decoder and is not even included in the bloated
> ubuntu kernel, see the debian kernel policy
> the only sucess of suspend2 is to unload a bunch of drivers and
> reoload them, that's most of the difference for the user.
> you really want to use uswsusp as it has the advantages
> of suspend2, while not having akward not mergeable code.
>
I take it no one here has evaluated the suspend2 patch in a while, it
hasn't had any UI or splash stuff in it for a long time now. And the rest
of the patch has been cleaned up as well as Nigel is pushing for inclusion
to replace swsusp. And The UI is entirely in userspace now with the kernel
communicating status to it via netlink. And the hibernate script that
was originally written for it can use swsusp, uswsusp or suspend2 so the
automatic unloading of problematic drivers isn't tied to suspend2 in any way.
But I'm not pushing for it's inclusion since I'm not qualified to evaluate
the patch myself and I'm sure it's too late to make it into etch, but it
would make my life a bit easier since I use a suspend2 patched kernel on
my notebook.
Jim.
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