[Pm-utils] [RFC] Writing "${HIBERNATE_MODE}" unconditionally to /sys/power/disk

[Dan Nicholson]

On Tue, Mar 18, 2008 at 7:36 AM, Michael Biebl <mbiebl at gmail.com> wrote:
>  >
>  > How about just defaulting to "shutdown"?  True, we might disable the
>  >  suspend LED, and wake-on-lid probably will not work, but shutdown should
>  >  work everywhere with no problems.  If a user or distro wants "firmware"
>  >  or "platform" they can modify the defaults accordingly.
>
>  I don't have enough information yet to make an educated decision.
>  Can't we just accept the default that is set in /sys/power/disk and
>  leave HIBERNATE_METHOD commented out by default (and we do nothing if
>  -z) ?
>  That means, the user would have to intentionally set HIBERNATE_METHOD
>  via /etc/pm/config.d and if he does that, he likely knows what he is
>  doing?

That would seem like the wiser thing to do, but I don't really now how
the kernel sets the default in /sys/power/disk.

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Dan