Re: System hang when trying to enter sleep/standby state

[Karol Kozimor <sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org>]

Thus wrote Patrick Mochel:
> ACPI should not allow a user to write '5' to that file. It used to be that 
> way, but someone clever decided that that interface should support _all_ 
> sleep states. (It might have been me, in one of my finer moments). 

May I ask: why? Is it really dangerous to leave it like it is now? Does it
break anything? I actually used it a couple of times, not bothering to hold
my poweroff button for the time needed to poweroff the machine completely.
As for potential dangers, I see many other ways of using the /proc 
interface that can be really *much* more harmful to the system, yet they
don't cease to exist. However confusing it might be now, it is fully
functional, at least. I can't really see any reason for crippling that
functionality. Please, do leave it the way it is.

Gosh, where's my manners... I hereby say hello to everyone. Hope you don't
take the above too personal or whatever, I'm a newbie to ACPI and I might
as well miss the whole point there.
Regards,

-- 
Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor
sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org


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