From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz> Update suspend documentation. Warnings were a bit overstated, and did not point out important stuff. Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> --- Documentation/power/swsusp.txt | 22 ++++++++++------------ 1 files changed, 10 insertions(+), 12 deletions(-) diff -puN Documentation/power/swsusp.txt~suspend-update-warnings-in-documentation Documentation/power/swsusp.txt --- devel/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt~suspend-update-warnings-in-documentation 2005-08-22 01:18:25.000000000 -0700 +++ devel-akpm/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt 2005-08-22 01:18:25.000000000 -0700 @@ -1,22 +1,20 @@ -From kernel/suspend.c: +Some warnings, first. * BIG FAT WARNING ********************************************************* * - * If you have unsupported (*) devices using DMA... - * ...say goodbye to your data. - * * If you touch anything on disk between suspend and resume... * ...kiss your data goodbye. * - * If your disk driver does not support suspend... (IDE does) - * ...you'd better find out how to get along - * without your data. - * - * If you change kernel command line between suspend and resume... - * ...prepare for nasty fsck or worse. + * If you do resume from initrd after your filesystems are mounted... + * ...bye bye root partition. + * [this is actually same case as above] * - * If you change your hardware while system is suspended... - * ...well, it was not good idea. + * If you have unsupported (*) devices using DMA, you may have some + * problems. If your disk driver does not support suspend... (IDE does), + * it may cause some problems, too. If you change kernel command line + * between suspend and resume, it may do something wrong. If you change + * your hardware while system is suspended... well, it was not good idea; + * but it wil probably only crash. * * (*) suspend/resume support is needed to make it safe. _