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

[Victor Lowther]

On Sat, 2008-11-29 at 16:53 +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> 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.

How many rely on it vs. rely on HAL to do The Right Thing?

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Victor Lowther
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