On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 12:52 +1000, Bojan Smojver wrote: > On Fri, 2012-07-13 at 03:16 +0100, Ben Hutchings wrote: > > On Wed, 2012-07-11 at 16:08 -0500, Manoj Iyer wrote: > > > Please consider the following upstream patch to stable 3.2.y linux-stable > > > > > > Patch: PM / Hibernate: Hibernate/thaw fixes/improvements > > > > > > commit 5a21d489fd9541a4a66b9a500659abaca1b19a51 > > > Author: Bojan Smojver <[email protected]> > > > Date: Sun Apr 29 22:42:06 2012 +0200 > > > > > > PM / Hibernate: Hibernate/thaw fixes/improvements [...] > > > This patch fixes S4 issues on Lenovo and thinkpad models. The patch > > > applies > > > cleanly to: > > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/bwh/linux-3.2.y.git > > > tree. and the patch was tested on Ubuntu precise by me on Lenovo system. > > [...] > > > > I wonder why it would fix these specific systems, as there's nothing > > obviously hardware-specific there. Or, it fixes those, whether it might > > at the same time cause regressions for other systems. > > I have a ThinkPad T510. I can hibernate/thaw without it and with it, but > this may depend on memory you have available on your machine. I > certainly hope it would not cause regressions, because it should be even > more careful about memory allocations than the present code.
Yes, I understand that's what it tries to do. > > Bojan, can you comment on whether you think this meets the stable update > > criteria? > > I hope so, yes. I wanted Rafael to include it in stable before, but he > asked me for a simpler patch instead. OK, I've added this to the queue. Ben. -- Ben Hutchings DNRC Motto: I can please only one person per day. Today is not your day. Tomorrow isn't looking good either.
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