Re: [PM] Passing suspend level down to drivers

Pavel Machek
2003-09-10T00:06:42Z

Hi!

> > APM suspend-to-ram
> > APM suspend-to-disk
> > ACPI standby (S1)
> > ACPI suspend-to-ram (S3)
> > ACPI suspend-to-disk (S4bios)
> > swsusp
> >
> > Do we want to support ACPI S2? I don't think so. That list is not
> > *that* bad.
>
> ACPI S2 is irrelevant. Nonetheless, you're suggesting that we add manual
> checks at runtime for each device to determine what state to go into,
> depending on whether the system is entering suspend-to-disk or suspend-to-
> ram.
>
> That's a bad idea because:
>
> - It doesn't need to be done at runtime, only initialization. Though it's
> not a permformant path, it's still more efficient to do it once only.
>
> - It forces policy into the drivers, instead of having them specify a
> changeable default.

Okay, so you suggest "driver has table of default things to do on
suspend-to-X, changeable by user", while I say "driver has table of
default things to do on suspend-to-X". I do not thing changeability by
user is so important here, but I'm not going to argue too much about
that.
Pavel
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