Re: standby problem

[Pavel Machek <pavel-+ZI9xUNit7I@public.gmane.org>]

Hi!

> > >Pavel Troller even had a patch, but it was too ugly. Yes, we should
> > >only list available states in /sys/power/state.
> > Ok, how does this one look? Each arch provides a .valid callback.
> 
> With this patch, I see in /sys/power/state either:
> standby disk		# if CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=y
> 
> or just:
> standby			# if CONFIG_SOFTWARE_SUSPEND=n
> 
> Does this mean that my poor old BIOS cannot do STR or did I miss
> a config option?  Yes, I have CONFIG_ACPI_SLEEP=y.
> Is there another config option for STR?

I think its your poor old BIOS/hardware. 

> I think it would be great if we could make the config options
> something more user-friendly, like Suspend to Disk and
> Standby/Suspend to RAM.  Or at least mention Suspend to RAM
> in the Help text....  It would also make sense (from a user's
> perspective) to have them together (next to each other).

I guess patches are accepted.. but be warned: SWSUSP is generic
option, while ACPI_SLEEP is ... well, ACPI related.
								Pavel
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