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

[David Zeuthen]

On Fri, 2006-08-04 at 19:01 +0200, Danny Kukawka wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> 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).

So, I think instead of adding a new method Standby() which in many ways
is similar to Suspend(), we should rather have a white-list of those
broken machines and just do ACPI S1 on them instead of ACPI S3. 

After all, conceptually S1 and S3 are totally similar, I can't imagine
when you want to go S1 instead of S3 [1].

How about that?

    David

[1] : maybe to reduce latency on wakeup but that sounds like an
implementation detail rather than something we should expose in the
interface that end-user apps use. 

E.g. if we have a nice interface to the kernel we could say "put the
machine to sleep - first go to S1, after 30 minutes go to S3 and after
to hours go to S4". Unfortunately we don't have that just now.