[ltp] Question on swsusp2 and other ACPI trivia

[Eben King]

On Thu, 6 Jan 2005, Bob Alexander wrote:

> To solve my 2.6.9-2.6.10-ACPI-APM deadlock I have now found the 
> following sensible solution:
> 
> Patched a 2.6.10 with the external swsusp2 and enabled ACPI including 
> the builtin ibm_acpi.
> 
> After setting up a few things I am delighted to be able to suspend to 
> HDD (let's call it hibernate ?) on my /dev/hda6 swap partition very 
> reliably.
> 
> Have a few questions though:
> 
> 1) If I hibernate while pinging a site, upon resuming the ping does not 
> progress. If I interrupt it and relaunch all is fine. Normal ?

I'm guessing that something in the swsusp2 code (or maybe a script)  
unloads the modules necessary to do this (those that support your
hardware?), and ping only does something that requires their presence (such
as opening a socket) when it is called.  Apparently transmitting data
through a (dead?) socket does not qualify.
 
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