pm-utils

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 18:21 -0400, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-04-25 at 23:17 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > > Can we call it pm-on-ac-power and, for a few releases, keep the
> > > on_ac_power as a symlink? Just trying to be practical..
> > 
> > This shouldn't be in pm-utils at all IMO.
> 
> Well, old cruft like the updatedb, prelink etc. cron jobs (sheesh) in
> Fedora etc. relies on it. I'm not saying it's a good idea, just how the
> reality is.

Sure, it can hang around for a bit I guess.

> > > > * move (remove?) the sysconfig stuff
> > > 
> > > Yea, move it to /etc/pm instead. /etc/sysconfig is a RH-ism.
> > 
> > Do we need any config? The module unload list can just be in the hook
> > script directly, no?
> 
> I'd like a single place users can change this. They will, because users
> compile any random junk under the sun to get their hardware going and we
> need to easily support that. In fact, we should have a /etc/pm.d
> directory where users can drop in files that say
> 
>  PM_MODULE_UNLOAD_ON_SLEEP += some_kernel_module
> 
> and then packagers can include this in an RPM. Bad idea?

No, but wouldn't a better way be have separate hooks for:

unload_module_button
or
unload_module_speedstep

as they are 2 line files, and then vendors/distros can just dump files
in hooks rather than appending to random config files.

Richard.