powerpc: Make it possible to select hibernation on all PowerPCs
Just as with kexec, hibernation may fail even on well-tested platforms: some PCI device, a driver of which doesn't play well with hibernation, is enough to break resuming. Hibernation code is not much platform dependent, and hiding features only because these were not verified on a particular hardware is counterproductive: we just prevent the features from being widely tested. For example, with this patch I just tested hibernation on a MPC83xx board, and it works quite well, modulo a few drivers that need some fixing. So, let's make it possible to select hibernation support for all PowerPCs, then let's wait for any possible bug reports, and actually fix (or just collect ;-) the bugs instead of hiding them. If some platforms really can't stand hibernation, we can make a blacklist, with proper comments why exactly hibernation doesn't work, whether it is possible to fix, and what needs to be done to fix it. CONFIG_HIBERNATION is still =n by default, so the commit doesn't change anything apart from ability to set it to =y. I'm not sure if EXPERIMENTAL dependency is needed, I'd rather not add it for a few reasons: 1) It doesn't matter much, for distro kernels user has no clue that some feature is experimental. Majority of defconfigs enable EXPERIMENTAL anyway (90 vs. 4, which, btw, means that EXPERIMENTAL is overused in Kconfigs); 2) EXPERIMENTAL is a good thing for features that change default behaviour of a kernel, while for hibernation user has to explicitly issue 'echo disk > /sys/power/state' to trigger any hibernation bugs; 3) Per init/Kconfig, EXPERIMENTAL is a good thing to scare and discourage users from 'widespread use of a feature', while we want to encourage that use. Signed-off-by: Anton Vorontsov <avorontsov@ru.mvista.com> Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
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