Suggestion for a new power management quirk: hibernate with shutdown instead of platform

[Tomasz Torcz]

On Sun, Dec 30, 2007 at 09:58:20PM +0100, Till Maas wrote:
> Hiyas,
> 
> sometimes it is neccessary to run
> echo shutdown > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
> instead of
> echo platform > /sys/power/disk; echo disk > /sys/power/state
> to hibernate a notebook, e.g. for the on from the user that reported this bug 
> report:
> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=375701
> 
> I cannot see, that there is a quirk flag that shows whether or not this is 
> needed, therefore it should be added, e.g.
> 
> power_management.quirk.hibernate_shutdown


  I would support this proposition. On some Thinkpads changing this is
needed for *sound* to work after resume:
https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux-source-2.6.20/+bug/80893
(and duplicates)

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