Improving the suspend quirks guessworking

Danny Kukawka danny.kukawka at web.de
Tue Mar 25 13:07:48 PDT 2008


On Dienstag, 25. März 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 25, 2008 at 01:23:18AM +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > I think the current behavior is much more helpful than you think. The
> > current behavior force the people to report problems and quirks back to
> > us. And the benefit in this case is bigger for many users (because we add
> > the quirk and it work then for hundreds users) then use some strange
> > fallback workarounds.
>
> Why is this beneficial? If the user doesn't get in touch with us, then
> that's because their machine works.

Because only one person need to get in touch with us and all other can benefit 
from this report. I don't see any problem here. Such a default would let the 
machine work with one driver or kernel version and it would break maybe with 
the next, where is there the benefit?

Danny


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