* Mark 27e3kk302@sneakemail.com [20070521 23:41]:
And what's the news?
I gave it:
(So USB_CONFIG_SUSPEND may cause issues with hardware devices, which kernel upgrades alone won't fix, only driver upgrades, one per device.)
The news is, grml should probably stop advising kernel upgrades to chase suspend/resume problems. As Linus says, they are 99% driver bugs.
Sure, and those driver bugfixes are part of kernel upgrades.
Unless the kernel upgrade incorporates new drivers, it won't do much, and will probably add bugs of its own.
New drivers? We are talking about bugfixes....
Sure, and CONFIG_ACPI "may cause issues with hardware devices" too.
But CONFIG_ACPI is not considered experimental by the kernel devs like USB_CONFIG_SUSPEND.
We're more likely to recompile grml 2.6.20 with our own flags, than upgrade the kernel to 2.6.21. If we do that I'll let everyone know whether it worked.
If CONFIG_USB_SUSPEND causes problems on specific hardware (what's the case) there's a bug somewhere. The fix for grml/upstream (what *you* do is your very own choice) is not disabling an option but to locate and fix the bug. Disabling such an important configuration option in general is the very last option.
regards, -mika-