[Pm-utils] Userspace suspend support for pm-utils

[Nigel Cunningham]

Hi.

On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 23:55 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 06, 2007 at 07:26:21AM +1000, Nigel Cunningham wrote:
> > Hi.
> > 
> > On Tue, 2007-06-05 at 22:55 +0200, Stefan Seyfried wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > and again, the monthly reminder that we still do not support anything
> > > uswsusp with upstream pm-utils.
> > > Is there anything blocking the merge of something like that?
> > 
> > This both adds support and changes behaviour by making the new method
> > the default. Shouldn't it be two patches?
> 
> strictly speaking: yes. But it only changes behaviour if the userspace suspend
> tools are installed.
> Those distributions that ship them already have similar patches like this one
> (at least the debian package uses pretty much the same patch).
> Those that don't do not see a change in behaviour.
> 
> So i think it is a pretty good way of handling this.
> We can of course default to the in-kernel suspend also, this would be a
> trivial change, but then the whole "autodetect the suspend method" algorithm
> is not working anymore and the users cannot simply uninstall the userspace
> suspend package to change the method.

Ok. I guess, then, that I should also be submitting something like this
for the getting the hibernate script used by default if it's installed.

Regards,

Nigel
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