Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 10 Feb 2007 21:40:04 +0100 | From | Adrian Bunk <> | Subject | Re: NAK new drivers without proper power management? |
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2007 at 09:22:48PM -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > On 2/9/07, Nigel Cunningham <nigel@nigel.suspend2.net> wrote: > >On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 20:59 -0500, Lee Revell wrote: > >> On 2/9/07, Robert Hancock <hancockr@shaw.ca> wrote: > >> > I would disagree that it's a peripheral issue, it's pretty core these > >> > days, at least for any hardware that you can stuff in a laptop (though > >a > >> > fair number of desktops get suspended and resumed these days too). > >> > >> Servers are still the most important Linux market, and don't care > >> about suspend/resume. I would consider implementing suspend./resume > >> for a driver that will only be used in server or HPC class hardware a > >> waste of valuable development resources. > > > >Not necessarily. Imagine suspending to disk in order to replace a faulty > >card. That could be way faster and less disruptive than shutting down > >normally and loosing caches and so on. > > > > Hmm. If uptime is critical I would make sure to have redundant > systems anyway and I would just reboot the thing. I would not expect > the suspend/resume paths on server class hardware like 10gig ethernet, > Infiniband adapters, or high end SCSI to be particularly well tested. >...
10gig ethernet will be commodity hardware 5 years from now like 1gig ethernet today where you can get cards for 12 Euro and switches for 40 Euro.
> Lee
cu Adrian
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