[Pm-utils] Userspace suspend support for pm-utils

Stefan Seyfried seife at suse.de
Fri Jun 8 03:17:01 PDT 2007


On Fri, Jun 08, 2007 at 10:51:07AM +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On Fri, 2007-06-08 at 11:37 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > 
> > > One problem is that hal doesn't distinguish between 'not known' and
> > 'do
> > > not need quirks'. It ought too IMHO. Then we can really determine if
> > it
> > > is save to suspend or not.
> > 
> > Hm, that's a real blocker for using of the HAL whitelist IMO.
> > Expecting
> > that "we never heard of this machine, so it'll probably work just
> > fine" is
> > pretty naive, given past experience. 
> 
> No, we have power_management.quirk.none if the machine has no quirks.
> See
> http://gitweb.freedesktop.org/?p=hal-info.git;a=blob;f=fdi/information/10freedesktop/20-video-quirk-pm-dell.fdi

Good, so we can use that. Does it get passed down to pm-utils or do i
need to jump through hoops to get it?
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Stefan Seyfried
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