[PATCH] suspend: update documentation

Update suspend documentation.

Signed-off-by: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 15 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
index 7a6b78966459..ddf907fbcc05 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/swsusp.txt
@@ -311,3 +311,10 @@ As a rule of thumb use encrypted swap to protect your data while your
 system is shut down or suspended. Additionally use the encrypted
 suspend image to prevent sensitive data from being stolen after
 resume.
+
+Q: Why we cannot suspend to a swap file?
+
+A: Because accessing swap file needs the filesystem mounted, and
+filesystem might do something wrong (like replaying the journal)
+during mount. [Probably could be solved by modifying every filesystem
+to support some kind of "really read-only!" option. Patches welcome.]
diff --git a/Documentation/power/video.txt b/Documentation/power/video.txt
index 7a4a5036d123..1a44e8acb54c 100644
--- a/Documentation/power/video.txt
+++ b/Documentation/power/video.txt
@@ -46,6 +46,12 @@ There are a few types of systems where video works after S3 resume:
   POSTing bios works. Ole Rohne has patch to do just that at
   http://dev.gentoo.org/~marineam/patch-radeonfb-2.6.11-rc2-mm2.
 
+(8) on some systems, you can use the video_post utility mentioned here:
+  http://bugzilla.kernel.org/show_bug.cgi?id=3670. Do echo 3 > /sys/power/state
+  && /usr/sbin/video_post - which will initialize the display in console mode.
+  If  you are in X, you can switch to a virtual terminal and back to X using
+  CTRL+ALT+F1 - CTRL+ALT+F7 to get the display working in graphical mode again.
+
 Now, if you pass acpi_sleep=something, and it does not work with your
 bios, you'll get a hard crash during resume. Be careful. Also it is
 safest to do your experiments with plain old VGA console. The vesafb
@@ -64,7 +70,8 @@ Model                           hack (or "how to do it")
 ------------------------------------------------------------------------------
 Acer Aspire 1406LC              ole's late BIOS init (7), turn off DRI
 Acer TM 242FX                   vbetool (6)
-Acer TM C300                    vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6)
+Acer TM C110                    video_post (8)
+Acer TM C300                    vga=normal (only suspend on console, not in X), vbetool (6) or video_post (8)
 Acer TM 4052LCi                 s3_bios (2)
 Acer TM 636Lci                  s3_bios vga=normal (2)
 Acer TM 650 (Radeon M7)         vga=normal plus boot-radeon (5) gets text console back