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SubjectRe: suspend slow in 2.6.25-rc6 (was Re: Suspend and hibernation patchset against -rc6)
Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote:
> On Wed, 19 Mar 2008, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
>> Also, for polling mode to work on Acers, we need
>> to insert a delay.
>>
>
> Can we, in the future, always trigger any such performance damaging "fixups"
> based on DMI white/black lists? As a rule?
>
Poll mode is not supposed to be entered on any non-broken HW.
The fact that it happens now with Thinkpads at suspend is a bug.
EC region should not be accessed with interrupts of GPEs disabled.
> This is not the first time I see a vendor push broken crap, and everyone
> else who did it right get the shaft, because people don't like to add
> quirks to common code. We get performance enhancement features disabled,
> mdelays added...
>
> And for the do-as-windows-does crowd, they do it on vendor­issued device
> drivers, which obviously don't hork everyone else's devices. Our equivalent
> solution is to key things to DMI matches. This is worth keeping in mind,
> because the ACPI subsystem seems to be a common target for such bad
> behaviour.
>
>

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