Re: [PATCH] [4/48] Suspend2 2.1.9.8 for 2.6.12: 302-init-hooks.patch

2005-07-06 Thread Bernard Blackham
dingly. I don't think any code eventuated from this discussion though ... Letting kacpid run during suspend appeared to be a good compromise (but still racy if GPEs were to occur at exactly the right instant - just before the atomic copy). Implementing suspend/resume support for GPEs wou

Re: swsusp

2005-09-07 Thread Bernard Blackham
get a less ugly name one of these days :) Bernard. -- Bernard Blackham - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Promise SX8 performance issues and CARM_MAX_Q

2005-03-23 Thread Bernard Blackham
s actually done, I've a few questions: - Should this be considered dangerous? - Why was it taken from 3 to 1? - Is CARM_MAX_Q a number defined (or limited) by the hardware? Thanks in advance, Bernard. -- Bernard Blackham - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscri

Re: PATCH: Address lots of pending pm_message_t changes

2005-02-14 Thread Bernard Blackham
down and up anyway, so there were no regressions there, just bugs. Software Suspend 2 passed "4" as the power state which ide-disk.c treated as "flush caches, but don't spin down". This is what broke when the new typedefs went in, but would be fixed when they're c

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-17 Thread Bernard Blackham
ear). Alternately (or additionally), you could examine the signature when sys_swapon is called on a swap partition (though the code couldn't be __init then). These together I want to claim would catch many of these cases, and any effort to avoid severe filesystem corruption is a good thing.

Re: Swsusp, resume and kernel versions

2005-02-18 Thread Bernard Blackham
The hibernate script available from the Software Suspend 2 homepage already has options to reconfigure LILO/GRUB upon suspending. I'd forgotten about them! Bernard. -- Bernard Blackham - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a mess

Re: BIOS overwritten during resume (was: Re: Asus L5D resume on battery power)

2005-03-04 Thread Bernard Blackham
t know the Nigel's > > patch before :-)). > > I should clarify credit. I didn't work on that code. I don't recall now > whether it was Michael Frank or Bernard Blackham that came up with this > version. (This was about a year ago IIRC). Definitely not me, sorry

Re: Promise SX8 performance issues and CARM_MAX_Q

2005-03-24 Thread Bernard Blackham
sly. I'll give those a workout over the weekend and let you know the results. Thanks, Bernard. -- Bernard Blackham - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/

Re: Promise SX8 performance issues and CARM_MAX_Q

2005-03-26 Thread Bernard Blackham
page write due to I/O error on sx80_0p1 end_request: I/O error, dev sx80_2, sector 389167 It's been thrashing away with various tests most of today with CARM_MAX_Q = 16, and it hasn't missed a beat. Thanks must go to Matt Johnston who actually did all the work of giving the card and dri

ext2 corruption - regression between 2.6.9 and 2.6.10

2005-03-30 Thread Bernard Blackham
ion (amd64 machine) also with fsx, we encountered a kernel panic who's backtrace looked like: ext3_discard_reservation ext3_truncate . . . do_truncate sys_ftruncate Could this same change (which was in ext3 also) be responsible for this? Bernard. [1] http://matt.ucc.asn.au/ext2bad