[Pm-utils] Release?

[Victor Lowther]

On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 16:27 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote:
> On Sun, 2008-03-16 at 18:31 +0100, Michael Biebl wrote: 
> > Hm, seems I missed to review your vlowther-dynamic-hook-disable changes.
> > Honestly, I'm a bit sceptical about adding this new /etc/pm/parameters
> > and /etc/pm/blacklists interface.
> > 
> > We already have a (documented) mechanism for users to disable a hook
> > (which is, to create a non-executable file in /etc/pm/sleep.d/. Why do
> > we need another mechanism?
> 
> The hook-disabling mechanism is not primarily for users -- it is for
> modules and other hooks.  I added the blacklist-parsing code because it
> is a bit more intuitive than masking out a system hook by creating a
> nonexecutable file.
> 
> > Second, do we really need to pass parameters to hooks? I haven't
> > needed it so far. Imho we should only add functionality which is
> > actually used.
> 
> I use it.  If I don't pass --quirk-none (or mask 99video out using a
> blacklist entry or a nonexecutable hook), then the paramaters hal passes
> to pm-suspend will hardlock my system on reboot everytime when it tries
> to POST the card.  HAL currently does not take the video card and video
> driver into account when deciding which quirks to pass to pm-suspend,
> and until it does I will need this sort of functionality.
> 
> > Besides, those two new interfaces are completely undocumented.
> 
> Mea culpa.  I will document them.

Basic documentation added for /etc/pm/blacklist and /etc/pm/parameters
as they are currently implemented.  

The documentation and the interfaces can be updated once we get more
feedback from the other regulars on the list.

> > Cheers,
> > Michael
> > 
> > 
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Victor Lowther
Ubuntu Certified Professional