[Pm-utils] [PATCH 1/2] Enable autodetection and stacking of sleep methods.

[Michael Biebl]

2008/9/9 Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>:
> On Tue, 2008-09-09 at 11:24 +0200, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
>> Victor Lowther schreef:
>>
>> > I also trimmed s2ram from uswsusp -- we just fall back to kernel suspend
>> > instead.  This way, we only have to handle video quirks in one place, and
>> > we control that place.
>>
>> So you are basically removing uswsusp support? That would be very
>> unfortunate, than we will have to add our own patches again...
>
> Just s2ram.  Handling quirks in s2ram and in 99video was just annoying,
> but with the recent "interesting" behaviour of the nvidia g80/g90 chips
> and their habit of only coming back from suspend if you posted from a
> saved copy of the BIOS, s2ram was causing resume failures that 99video
> handles correctly, so the old "disable 99video in favor of handling the
> quirks in uswsusp" bahaviour missed this case when running with s2ram.
>
> While I suppose I could set up some sort of framework where certian
> quirks are handled by s2ram and certian others are handled by 99video,
> that seems like a recipie for disaster.
>
> s2disk and s2both are still supported by this patch series, and now we
> force s2both to run quirkless.  I could have s2ram do the same thing,
> but since all it ends up doing the same as what we already do, it is
> just as easy to fall back to the kernel method.

Hi Victor et al,

could we please split up the patch. Imo the autodetection idea is a
good one, and I already implemented something like this for the Debian
package.
If we can get that upstream, even better ;-)

Regarding, dropping support for s2ram, you already noticed there is
too much controversy atm, so I'd leave it as is for now.
This needs further discussion. In the end, I would welcome if we come
to a solution which is acceptable for all distros and avoids the
duplicated effort.
I don't think it's a good idea to enforce such a decision upon everyone.
We should first gather all pros and cons of the different approaches
and try to reach a consensus.

Cheers,
Michael

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