Why was a kernel-2.6.34 pushed to updates that had un-addressed bugs.

[Adam Williamson]

On Tue, 2010-09-07 at 14:36 +0200, Jan Wildeboer wrote:
> On 09/07/2010 02:32 PM, Adam Williamson wrote:
> 
> > It isn't. We can't possibly guarantee suspend/resume will work on all
> > laptops in anything like a reasonable timeframe. if we set this as a
> > release criterion, we would likely never release. So we don't.
> 
> Understood. It is however a royal PITA ;-) In the beginning, F13 was 

I know. It's not a perfect world. :P

> unable to use the external VGA at all in a decent manner, this started 
> to work after a few kernel updates. So I was a happy camper.
> 
> The .34 kernel starts to suspends, switches to the spalsh screen and the 
> gets stuck. I didn't notice the first time, so after two hours I had a 
> wonderful sauna in my laptop bag and a broken fan.

I have the same problem with this laptop running F14, oddly. Haven't
found the exact point at which it broke, yet, I'll have to work back
through some old kernels.
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