detecting hibernation capability
Richard Hughes
hughsient at gmail.com
Wed Nov 30 12:32:40 PST 2005
On Wed, 2005-11-30 at 21:07 +0100, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> On Tuesday 29 November 2005 23:11, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Assuming this is a sane check (cc'ing relevant people), we'll need some
> > more keys on the computer device:
> >
> > (bool) power_management.can_suspend
> > (bool) power_management.can_hibernate
> > (bool) power_management.can_standby
>
> I would propose to use this keys:
> (bool) power_management.can_suspend_to_ram
> (bool) power_management.can_suspend_to_disk
>
> This property names would be more self-explanatory and would be compatible
> with the names from ACPI4Linux project. Btw. you can't find any hit if you
> search for hibernate in the ACPI spec v2 or v3 (this name was a MS
> fabrication).
>
> The kernel reports mem and disk, so we should IMO name them by the same way.
Good for me, thanks for the review.
David, with Danny's changes, this okay to commit?
Richard.
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