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

Matthew Garrett mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org
Sat Nov 29 11:49:08 PST 2008


On Sat, Nov 29, 2008 at 08:38:30PM +0100, Michael Biebl wrote:

> Oh, and we obviously also want, that users send us their fdi files
> with the (correct) quirks for their plattform, so everyone benefits.

Mostly we want to spend the time and effort that's gone into this on 
making the kernel actually work properly, since the fdi approach doesn't 
scale in the slightest.

> Supporting flags via /proc/cmdline  in pm-utils benefits noone, imho,
> and we shouldn't encourage the usage of this interface.

There's a difference between "encourage" and "break existing setups".

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59 at srcf.ucam.org


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