Re: Suspend 2 merge

[Nigel Cunningham <ncunningham@linuxmail.org>]

Hi.

On Wed, 2004-12-01 at 21:08, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
> 
> > > > > >>Putting only the absolutely necessary things into the kernel (the same
> > > > > >>is true for the interactive resume thing - if someone wants interactive
> > > > > >>startup at a failing resume, he has to use an initrd, i don't see a
> > > > > >>problem with that) will probably increase the acceptance a bit :-)
> > > > > > 
> > > > > > That's fine if your initrd is properly configured and you're willing to
> > > > > 
> > > > > This is something distributions have to take care of.
> > > > 
> > > > No; it's something the users will have to take care of. Distro makers
> > > > might make the process more automated, but in the end it's the user's
> > > > problem if it doesn't work.
> > > 
> > > Actually, no, its not like that. 
> > > 
> > > User will click icon in KDE, and if it does not suspend & resume
> > > properly, distribution has problem to fix. And yes, it works well in
> > > SUSE9.2.
> > 
> > I didn't know you had support for initramfs and initrd configurations
> > already. You are making progress.
> 
> Well, no, not that one.
> 
> OTOH for SUSE9.2 these things basically can not happen. (There's no
> wrong kernel you can click on ;-) -- either you boot normally, then
> there's just one kernel to boot, or you boot failsafe, and then you
> want to kill signatures etc.) 

And it's impossible for you to accidentally select the failsafe?

Anyway, even if it is impossible, you're still only talking about one
particular set of circumstances; that's not necessarily the case for
everyone else, not should it necessarily be.

Regards,

Nigel
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Nigel Cunningham
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