[systemd-devel] [PATCH] Add support for TuxOnIce hibernation

[Kay Sievers]

On Tue, Apr 29, 2014 at 2:36 PM, Julien Muchembled <jm at jmuchemb.eu> wrote:
> Le 04/29/14 13:39, Kay Sievers a écrit :

>> Is this available in the upstream kernel, or planned to to be merged?
>
> It's not available in vanilla.
> I don't know if it's planned to be merged.
>
>> Systemd does not support any unmerged kernel features, unless there a
>> very strong strategic reason to do that.
>
> I use Debian, which has just packaged version 208, and hibernate key stopped working after upgrading from 204. Rebuilding systemd with this patch is the only option.
>
> I am the maintainer a TOI user interface for Debian[1] and I recently added systemd support to it[2]
> This patch could be a Debian patch to systemd package but it would help all dists that support TOI if it was merged upstream.
>
> I use TOI since 2006 and given its quality, I hope you will accept such a small and simple patch.

No, it is not about the size of a patch; systemd just does not support
non-mainline kernel features.

If Debian supports it, please add this patch to Debian. If it is some
day merged into the upstream kernel, we would add support in systemd
upstream too, not the other way around.

Thanks,
Kay