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Commit:     c7276fde27bca89798f33c0be9543dc108468788
Parent:     42a7fc4a6598221f1a547a76cdd45a8ab4d90e93
Author:     Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
AuthorDate: Tue Mar 6 01:42:24 2007 -0800
Committer:  Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
CommitDate: Tue Mar 6 09:30:26 2007 -0800

    [PATCH] kconfig: Update swsusp description
    
    Update the outdated and inaccurate description of the software suspend in
    Kconfig.
    
    Signed-off-by: Rafael J. Wysocki <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
    Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
---
 kernel/power/Kconfig |   37 +++++++++++++++++++++----------------
 1 files changed, 21 insertions(+), 16 deletions(-)

diff --git a/kernel/power/Kconfig b/kernel/power/Kconfig
index 95f6657..51a4dd0 100644
--- a/kernel/power/Kconfig
+++ b/kernel/power/Kconfig
@@ -81,29 +81,34 @@ config SOFTWARE_SUSPEND
        bool "Software Suspend"
        depends on PM && SWAP && ((X86 && (!SMP || SUSPEND_SMP)) || ((FRV || 
PPC32) && !SMP))
        ---help---
-         Enable the possibility of suspending the machine.
-         It doesn't need ACPI or APM.
-         You may suspend your machine by 'swsusp' or 'shutdown -z <time>' 
-         (patch for sysvinit needed). 
+         Enable the suspend to disk (STD) functionality.
 
-         It creates an image which is saved in your active swap. Upon next
+         You can suspend your machine with 'echo disk > /sys/power/state'.
+         Alternatively, you can use the additional userland tools available
+         from <http://suspend.sf.net>.
+
+         In principle it does not require ACPI or APM, although for example
+         ACPI will be used if available.
+
+         It creates an image which is saved in your active swap. Upon the next
          boot, pass the 'resume=/dev/swappartition' argument to the kernel to
          have it detect the saved image, restore memory state from it, and
          continue to run as before. If you do not want the previous state to
-         be reloaded, then use the 'noresume' kernel argument. However, note
-         that your partitions will be fsck'd and you must re-mkswap your swap
-         partitions. It does not work with swap files.
+         be reloaded, then use the 'noresume' kernel command line argument.
+         Note, however, that fsck will be run on your filesystems and you will
+         need to run mkswap against the swap partition used for the suspend.
 
-         Right now you may boot without resuming and then later resume but
-         in 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.
+         It also works with swap files to a limited extent (for details see
+         <file:Documentation/power/swsusp-and-swap-files.txt>).
 
-         For more information take a look at 
<file:Documentation/power/swsusp.txt>.
+         Right now you may boot without resuming and resume later but in the
+         meantime you cannot use the swap partition(s)/file(s) involved in
+         suspending.  Also in this case you must not use the filesystems
+         that were mounted before the suspend.  In particular, you MUST NOT
+         MOUNT any journaled filesystems mounted before the suspend or they
+         will get corrupted in a nasty way.
 
-         (For now, swsusp is incompatible with PAE aka HIGHMEM_64G on i386.
-         we need identity mapping for resume to work, and that is trivial
-         to get with 4MB pages, but less than trivial on PAE).
+         For more information take a look at 
<file:Documentation/power/swsusp.txt>.
 
 config PM_STD_PARTITION
        string "Default resume partition"
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