From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Richard Hughes Subject: Re: add powerbutton and lid platform devices Date: Mon, 16 Jul 2007 09:51:01 +0100 Message-ID: <1184575861.2228.39.camel@work> References: <20070330235759.GC4252@cosmic.amd.com> <20070708221027.GA4964@dmt> <20070709150545.GD31533@cosmic.amd.com> <200707090930.26973.david-b@pacbell.net> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Received: from ug-out-1314.google.com ([66.249.92.172]:31448 "EHLO ug-out-1314.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753516AbXGPRDi (ORCPT ); Mon, 16 Jul 2007 13:03:38 -0400 Received: by ug-out-1314.google.com with SMTP id j3so1020145ugf for ; Mon, 16 Jul 2007 10:03:37 -0700 (PDT) In-Reply-To: <200707090930.26973.david-b@pacbell.net> Sender: linux-acpi-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org To: David Brownell Cc: Jordan Crouse , linux-acpi@vger.kernel.org, linux-pm@lists.linux-foundation.org, devel@laptop.org On Mon, 2007-07-09 at 09:30 -0700, David Brownell wrote: > What's this "power manager" component? At the moment we're using OHM, although it's got a few rough edges, it seems to do mostly what we need it to right now. > This policy is easily set through sysfs. It doesn't need a new > component to make that decision. Sure you do. What happens if you are right in the middle of a system update over wifi -- do you still want to suspend in that case? Or a bios flash? There has to be something higher level to unset or set the policy knobs in the kernel with the information from the system or session. Richard.