Suspend and NetworkManager

[Richard Hughes]

On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 11:25 -0500, David Zeuthen wrote:
> On Tue, 2006-01-10 at 16:22 +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > Well, I'm thinking some of this at least should be handled with
> > gnome-session, or maybe gnome-power-manager. The implementation
> > difficulty with NetworkManager is that it's on the system bus, not
> > per-session.
> 
> It indeed runs in your session as nm-applet (which also provides the
> icon in the notification area) - the thinking is simply to enhance
> nm-applet such that on startup it does 
> 
>  gpm_session_interface.Register (about_to_suspend_handler);
> 
> with
> 
>  void about_to_suspend_handler (...)
>  {
>      nm_system_interface.shutdown(); // this blocks until NM has
>                                      // shutdown all networking - it
>                                      // might take several seconds..
> 
>      // Now well g-p-m that it's OK to suspend
>      gpm_session_interface.okToSuspend();
>  }
> 
> or something. Don't you think this is much cleaner?

Yes, but it also relies on gnome-session using g-p-m (rather than HAL)
to suspend, or am I mistaken?

Jaap's opened a bug here :
http://bugzilla.gnome.org/show_bug.cgi?id=326644

if you want to comment.

Thanks, Richard.