From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S270748AbTG0L37 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:29:59 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S270749AbTG0L37 (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:29:59 -0400 Received: from atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz ([195.113.31.123]:8460 "EHLO atrey.karlin.mff.cuni.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S270748AbTG0L3z (ORCPT ); Sun, 27 Jul 2003 07:29:55 -0400 Date: Sun, 27 Jul 2003 13:13:40 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: "Randy.Dunlap" Cc: Tomas Szepe , torvalds@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [TRIVIAL] sanitize power management config menus Message-ID: <20030727111340.GB1957@openzaurus.ucw.cz> References: <20030726200213.GD16160@louise.pinerecords.com> <20030726194651.5e3f00bb.rddunlap@osdl.org> <20030727025647.GB17724@louise.pinerecords.com> <20030726204623.47b08882.rddunlap@osdl.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20030726204623.47b08882.rddunlap@osdl.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.3.27i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > | > 3. The help text for Software Suspend (not part of this patch) > | > really needs some help. Would you address that or shall I? > | > | Sure, it would be nice if you could fish out an entry from somewhere. > > OK, how's this look? Hey, I had similar patch in queue somewhere. > --- ./arch/i386/Kconfig~swshelp 2003-07-25 10:23:11.000000000 -0700 > +++ ./arch/i386/Kconfig 2003-07-26 20:30:50.000000000 -0700 > @@ -824,27 +824,27 @@ > bool "Software Suspend (EXPERIMENTAL)" > depends on EXPERIMENTAL && PM && SWAP > ---help--- > - Enable the possibilty of suspendig machine. It doesn't need APM. > - You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z ' > - (patch for sysvinit needed). > - > - It creates an image which is saved in your active swaps. By the next > - booting the, pass 'resume=/path/to/your/swap/file' and kernel will > - detect the saved image, restore the memory from > - it and then it continues to run as before you've suspended. > - If you don't want the previous state to continue use the 'noresume' > - kernel option. However note that your partitions will be fsck'd and > - you must re-mkswap your swap partitions/files. > + Enable the possibility of suspending the machine. It doesn't need > + APM. You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z ' > + (patch for sysvinit is needed). > + > + This creates an image which is saved in your active swap space. On > + the next boot, pass the 'resume=/path/to/your/swap/file' option and Swap *files* are no longer supported. Swap partitions work. > + the kernel will detect the saved image, restore the memory from it, > + and then continue to run as before you suspended. > + If you don't want the previous state to continue, use the 'noresume' > + kernel option. However, note that your partitions will appear to be > + damaged so you must re-mkswap your swap partitions/files to use them. > > Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but > - in meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were > + in the meantime you cannot use those swap partitions/files which were > involved in suspending. Also in this case there is a risk that buffers > on disk won't match with saved ones. I guess we do not want to teach people doing this. > - SMP is supported __as-is''. There's a code for it but doesn't work. > - There have been problems reported relating SCSI. > + SMP is supported __as-is''. There's code for it but doesn't work. > + There have been problems reported relating to SCSI. SMP is not supported. Kill the note about SCSI. > - This option is about getting stable. However there is still some > + This option is close to getting stable. However there is still some > absence of features. Kill this. Saying (EXPERIMENTAL) should be enough. -- Pavel Written on sharp zaurus, because my Velo1 broke. If you have Velo you don't need...