Re: [PM] Patrick: which part of "maintainer" and "peer review" needs explaining to you?

Alan Cox
2003-09-09T23:16:25Z

On Mer, 2003-09-10 at 00:07, Patrick Mochel wrote:
> What about suspend-to-ram, APM, and runtime states?
>
> That actually makes it quite a bit more complicated, globally. By forcing
> the policy down to the drivers, you force each one to interpret the value
> themselves and make the decision. By doing it centrally, the only thing
> the low-level drivers have to worry about is going into the state.

APM and ACPI suspend/resume (especially resume) are different. Very
different with some hardware in fact. For IDE to be done perfectly you
want to know if its ACPI S4 or APM suspend. The driver needs to be able
to get the actual aim but most I agree wont care which.