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

[Danny Kukawka]

On Dienstag, 1. Januar 2008, Tomasz Torcz wrote:
> 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)

This bug speaks about (AFAIK) using platform as default instead of call 
shutdown, this is what IIRC pm-utils already do. So it would not help in this 
case at all.

Danny