A new Linux kernel patch lets you cancel the process of your machine going into hibernation, but the bigger context of the work may be more important.

The new request for comments is from Collabora's Muhammad Anjum. Collabora does a lot of FOSS development, although its work on LibreOffice may be the most visible. (That may even speed up, as earlier this year, it merged with Allotropia , the company working on a WASM version of LibreOffice .)

Hibernation can take a while. As the RFC says, on Anjum's machine it takes about 20 seconds. The proposed change is simple: it adds a mechanism to cancel the process by pressing the power button. The thing is that for reasons Anjum goes on to explain, this is trickier than it sounds.

Hibernation is quite a tricky area in general. Ubuntu leaves it d

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