Improving the suspend quirks guessworking

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Wed Mar 26 08:27:27 PDT 2008


On Wed, Mar 26, 2008 at 04:10:55PM +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Mittwoch, 26. März 2008, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> > So where the drivers are able to resume without quirks, we never use any
> > quirks. That's currently stuff using i915 and higher, and the binary
> > nvidia and fglrx drivers.
> 
> Only one example where it breaks for me one machine: Dell XPS M1330 (Intel 
> GM965/GL960) break without quirks and i915 kernel driver (kernel version 
> 2.6.24 and 2.6.25-rc5-git3). This machine obviously need quirks which isn't 
> possible with your patch since there is _no_ way to overwrite the case that a 
> machine with Intel/Nvidia/fglrx still needs special quirks to run. I assume 
> this is only one of potentially many cases.

Then that's a bug in the kernel. Let's get it fixed before 2.6.25. It 
certainly won't work with stock 2.6.24.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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