ThinkPad X61 patch

Sahak Petrosyan sahak at MIT.EDU
Tue Feb 19 16:23:12 PST 2008


Quoting Richard Hughes <hughsient at gmail.com>:
> On Sun, 2008-02-17 at 14:35 +0100, Lubomir Kundrak wrote:
>> On Sat, 2008-02-16 at 19:31 -0500, Sahak Petrosyan wrote:
>> > Starting from 2.6.24 kernel X61 ThinkPads don't need any quirks to 
>> suspend and
>> > resume. Kernels 2.6.23 and before that needed s3bios quirk.
>> >
>> > I am attaching a patch that removes my X61 laptop model from the 
>> list of laptops
>> > needing s3bios quirk.
>>
>> It really makes no sense to break compatibility with older kernels.
>> Probably a match against system.kernel.version would be appropriate here.
>
> Do the quirks now break suspend and resume with a new kernel?
>
kernel-2.6.23.15-137.fc8 needs s3bios quirk for suspend and resume.
kernel-2.6.24.2-7.fc8 does not need s3bios for suspend and resume, but suspend
and resume work just fine even when the quirk is present.

-Sahak.


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