[PATCH] fd.o bug #7165: Make HAL work with S1 - Standby

[Danny Kukawka]

On Friday 04 August 2006 20:43, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:01 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> > this patch adds, as requested in fd.o bug #7165 [1], support for standby
> > (S1) to HAL. This is useful on older machines, which not work e.g. with
> > suspend2ram (S3) but support standby (S1).
>
> Looks good for me, although I would question the need at all to use
> standby -- but I appreciate lots of machines are very broken.

There are simply machines, in the most cases (very) old machines, which not 
run really good with suspend2ram (S3). I have e.g. an older HP machine which 
I could not get working with s2ram, but where standby work perfect and do the 
same as s2ram normally do (off display, usb, harddisk etc.), but this depends 
on the machine/BIOS and differ from machine to machine. There is IMO no rule 
what standby should do exactly (or if there is/was a policy, nobody of the 
hardware manufacturer follow the policy ;-) ).

Btw. the most of the modern machines does not support standby and if s2ram 
work the user should use it. But this is something the user should check and 
know. I would only allow users of such machines to be able to trigger 
standby. This does not mean, that a desktop programm need to expose this (we 
do this in KPowersave, but it's disabled by default) to the user.

Danny