The death of Hibernate?

Rex Dieter rdieter at math.unl.edu
Tue Mar 6 21:49:46 UTC 2012


Geoffrey Leach wrote:

> It appears that among some kernel maintainers there's an opinion that
> the hibernate (suspend to disk) capability is of insufficient interest
> to users to justify the difficulty of maintenance.

It's not an issue about users' interest at all.  Obviously its a useful 
feature.

What it *is* (imo), 
* there are a not-so-insignificant number of hibernation-related kernel bugs
* no one (esp upstream) with the interest and ability to fix said bugs

-- rex




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