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[Stefan Ehmann]

On Sunday 04 March 2007 21:14, Nate Lawson wrote:
> Bruce Evans wrote:
> > [Trying to redirect this from current to acpi.]
> >
> > On Sun, 4 Mar 2007, Stefan Ehmann wrote:
> >> On Sunday 04 March 2007 13:27, Bruce Evans wrote:
...
> >>> Oops.  If suspend/resume clobbers the RTC state (which we already
> >>> have code
> >>> to restore), then it can clobber the RTC index (which even the restoral
> >>> code assumes is unclobbered).  Try this fix.
...
> >>> I don't know how any of this works with ACPI.  AFAIK (not far), the
> >>> resume
> >>> hook is only called for APM.
> >>
> >> Yes, rtc_restore() doesn't get called. So the patch changes nothing
> >> for me.
>
> Bruce's patch should work if you add "device pmtimer" to your kernel
> config.  That will allow pmtimer_resume() to call timer_restore() which
> calls rtc_restore().
>
> If that works for you, Bruce can commit it modulo style bugs.  ;-)

Oops, seems I somehow screwed up Bruce's patch on first try (pmtimer was 
already in my config). Probably the aftermath of the lunar eclipse :)

On my second try, timer_restore really gets called and it also fixes my 
problem. 

Thanks!