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From: David Zeuthen <davidz-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
To: Adam Belay <abelay-Et1tbQHTxzrQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
Cc: linux-pm <linux-pm-qjLDD68F18O7TbgM5vRIOg@public.gmane.org>,
	seife-l3A5Bk7waGM@public.gmane.org
Subject: Re: suspend/resume uevents [was Re: Introducing HAL userspace power management]
Date: Fri, 11 Mar 2005 10:52:03 -0500	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1110556324.4203.7.camel@daxter.boston.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1110525158.12485.178.camel-bi+AKbBUZKY6gyzm1THtWbp2dZbC/Bob@public.gmane.org>

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On Fri, 2005-03-11 at 02:12 -0500, Adam Belay wrote:
> > Maybe I'm reading the source wrong, but isn't it the case that some
> > laptops using APM (my IBM thinkpad T41 with acpi=off for instance)
> > suspends without user space interaction when the lid is closed, thus
> > rendering it impossible to send the event from user space? 
> > 
> > One may even ask whether it's sound to assume that all architectures
> > will be suspended via user space?
> > 
> > <snip>
> 
> I would consider this to be an exception.  APM has been obsolete for
> years.  Our focus (for those platforms where it is available) should be
> with ACPI on.
> 

Except that quite a few laptop users (it's getting fewer thankfully,
since ACPI support is getting better all the time) currently are forced
to use APM if they want their laptop to actually suspend.

Cheers,
David



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       reply	other threads:[~2005-03-11 15:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
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2005-03-11 15:52                       ` David Zeuthen [this message]
     [not found]                   ` <20050311084158.GA1705@elf.ucw.cz>
     [not found]                     ` <20050311084158.GA1705-I/5MKhXcvmPrBKCeMvbIDA@public.gmane.org>
2005-03-11 16:04                       ` suspend/resume uevents [was Re: Introducing HAL userspace power management] David Zeuthen
     [not found]                         ` <1110557099.4203.19.camel-Kbn0pMe1eZsEMMbVNdFDoACJwEvxM/w9@public.gmane.org>
2005-03-11 20:49                           ` Nigel Cunningham
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2005-03-12  4:15                               ` Greg KH
     [not found]                                 ` <20050312041535.GB9671-U8xfFu+wG4EAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2005-03-12  4:25                                   ` Bernard Blackham
2005-03-12  5:43                                   ` Nigel Cunningham
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2005-03-11 20:57                       ` Patrick Mochel
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2005-03-11 21:26                           ` Nigel Cunningham
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2005-03-11 20:39                         ` Nigel Cunningham

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