[Pm-utils] [PATCH 1/8] pm-utils 1.2.3 proposed patches

[Michael Biebl]

2008/11/29 Matthew Garrett <mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org>:
> On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 08:51:18AM -0800, Michael Biebl wrote:
>> Reset acpi_video_flags before suspend.
>>
>> If no --quirk-s3-* option is passed to pm-suspend, set acpi_video_flags
>> to 0. This allows to reliably test different set of quirks and clears
>> any flags that were set via the kernel boot option. We deliberately
>> ignore the kernel acpi_sleep option, quirks should be set via HAL.
>
> The acpi_sleep parameter is a documented kernel interface and many
> people currently rely upon it. It's not reasonable to override it.
>

Have you followed the discussion, why we added this?
If we don't clear the acpi flags, we get all sort of weird and
unexpected results.



Michael

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