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

[Victor Lowther]

On Sun, 2008-11-30 at 13:03 -0800, Dan Nicholson wrote:
> On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:42 AM, Dan Nicholson <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Sun, Nov 30, 2008 at 8:00 AM, Victor Lowther
> > <victor.lowther at gmail.com> wrote:
> >> On Nov 29, 2008, at 2:32 PM, "Dan Nicholson" <dbn.lists at gmail.com> wrote:
> >>>
> >>> Well, I'll try sending a mail to alsa-devel and see if anything happens.
> >>
> >> Ok, but the alsa hook is pretty fast, so  it is lower on my list of
> >> priorities.
> >
> > Yeah, it's not a big deal. At least, I think it should only be run if
> > requested. Like NEED_SOUND_RESTORE or something. I'm sure it got
> > blocked from getting back to this list, but here's Takashi's reply
> > about needing the hook:
> >
> > http://mailman.alsa-project.org/pipermail/alsa-devel/2008-November/013030.html
> 
> According to Takashi, I think we can drop the alsactl hook.
> 
> http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/pm-utils/2008-November/001808.html
> 
> For power management aware drivers, they will save and restore their
> state for suspend. For non-power management aware drivers, they have
> to be unloaded at suspend time. In that case, the system should be
> setup to save and restore the state via udev or modprobe. I don't
> think we should handle that case besides supporting SUSPEND_MODULES.

65alsa dropped per the above thread on alsa-devel, since it is never
the right thing to do by itself.

> 
> --
> Dan
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