pm-suspend: should use quirks by default

[Michael Biebl]

2007/12/5, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com>:
> 2007/12/5, Till Maas <opensource at till.name>:
> > On Mi Dezember 5 2007, Terry Barnaby wrote:
> >
> > > I believe these commands should be changed to use the databadse by
> > > default unless a suitable command line option (--manual ?) is used.
> > > It is not reasonable to have special pm-suspend calls with appropriate
> > > arguments depending on the system type.
> >
> > The correct mailing list for this is the pm-utils mailing list:
> > http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
> >
> > I wrote a patch for this feature some months ago. Maybe the development of
> > pm-utils will become more alive soon, so that it may be included into
> > pm-utils then.
> >
>
> I support this feature request. It should safely fallback to not use
> hal though, so pm-utils still works when hal is not installed.

I guess it could actually work, if hal simply installed a pm-utils
hook which runs first (eg 01hal) and pulls the information from hal
and sets the global  QUIRKS variables.

This would address the fallback issue I mentioned nicely.

Cheers,
Michael


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