[Pm-utils] pm-utils and pmu hardware.

[Peter Jones]

On Mon, 2006-05-01 at 18:51 +0100, Richard Hughes wrote:
> On pmu, the best way to sleep is do:
> 
> where fd is /dev/pmu.
> 
> ioctl (fd, PMU_IOC_SLEEP, 0);
> 
> This is what we do in "hal-system-power-pmu sleep" and seems to work
> well on PMU systems.
> echo mem > /sys/power/state seems to only work on some ppc machines, on
> newest kernels and if the wind is blowing in the right direction...
> It's mainly because all the PPC stuff hasn't been hooked up to
> the /sys/power/state mechanism properly, and has been broken for ages.
> 
> The hal suspend script should call pm-utils for all arch's (rather than
> just i386) and so we need to handle this in pm-utils.

This looks to me like a kernel bug.  Why isn't "echo mem
> /sys/power/state" doing the same thing as the ioctl handler on ppc?
Somebody should fix that instead of special casing the userland.

-- 
  Peter