[Pm-utils] Re: Better integration with power management scripts

[Peter Jones]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 20:12 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Mon, May 01, 2006 at 10:26:35AM -0400, Peter Jones wrote:
> > On Fri, 2006-04-28 at 19:56 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > 
> > > There are some short-term benefits.  For example, we are able to use the RSA
> > > for encryption and we support suspend-to-disk-and-RAM on some machines
> > > with the ability to reinitialize the graphics card if necessary.
> > 
> > We already have that without it being in userland.
> 
> No. Encryption and write-image-to-disk-but-then-suspend-to-ram are only
> possible with uswsusp (and suspend2).

Sorry for being vague; I was referring to the graphics reinitialization.

> > > I'm going to implement the ability to cancel the suspend (ie. cancel the image
> > > saving).  That should be easy in the user space. ;-)
> > 
> > Not quite sure... how does this help?
> 
> Well, everybody seems to want that feature. It looks like lots of people
> trigger a suspend, but change their mind afterwards ;-)

It just seems weird to me.  Suspending should be quick enough that
canceling it isn't a practical thing to actually do.

-- 
  Peter