Comparing other distros kernels to Fedora.

[Michal Schmidt]

On Tue, 12 Oct 2010 13:09:18 +0200 Michał Piotrowski wrote:
> W dniu 12 października 2010 12:39 użytkownik Rodd Clarkson
> <rodd at clarkson.id.au> napisał:
> >
> >
> > 2010/9/28 Michał Piotrowski <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com>
> >>
> >> W dniu 27 września 2010 23:13 użytkownik Michał Piotrowski
> >> <mkkp4x4 at gmail.com> napisał:
> >> > 2010/9/27 Rodd Clarkson <rodd at clarkson.id.au>:
> >> >> I've been having troubles getting 2.6.34.x kernels on f13 and
> >> >> 2.6.35.x kernels on f14 to resume from suspend.
> >> >>
> >> >> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=628897
> >> >>
> >> >> To try and resolve this I've been trying out other recent
> >> >> distros to see if
> >> >> they have similar kernels and whether I have the same problem
> >> >> resuming.
> >> >>
> >> >> Recent ubuntu is still only using 2.6.32 but openSUSE 11.3 has
> >> >> a 2.6.34 kernel and I can suspend and resume from it using the
> >> >> live CD. How can I
> >> >> compare this kernel to ones in f13/f14 to see why it works in
> >> >> one and not in
> >> >> the other?
> >> >
> >> > You can download source package and check whether there are any
> >> > patches that fixes suspend.
> >>
> >> I grepped the source and I have not found anything obvious.
> >>
> > I've downloaded the Ubuntu 10.10 LiveCD which uses kernel 2.6.35
> > and suspend and resume works fine in Ubuntu too.
> >
> > What difference in the Fedora kernels could be causing this problem?
> 
> It might be a patch added by one of Fedora kernel developers. CC'ing
> fedora-kernel

You can test this with a non-patched kernel from Fedora kernel
source rpm using the "--with vanilla" option to rpmbuild.

If kernel-vanilla works, the problem is in a Fedora patch.
If it still does not work, the problem may be caused by some
kernel configuration options.

Michal