[Pm-utils] Trouble waking from sleep

[Dan Nicholson]

On Fri, May 15, 2009 at 4:34 PM, Dan Williams <dcbw at redhat.com> wrote:
> On Fri, 2009-05-15 at 16:25 +0200, Christopher Lang wrote:
>> Dan,
>>
>> thanks, for pointing me into the right direction, the
>> https://bugzilla.redhat.com/show_bug.cgi?id=477964 has it all.
>>
>>
>> However I would like to point out a few inconsistencies, that are still
>> present in git repositories:
>>
>> 1. git repo from today, NetworkManager:
>> file NetworkManager/initscript/Arch/networkmanager.in
>>
>> This one is using --type=method_call \ in the dbus-send, which is
>> non-blocking, but makes dbus-send use "dbus_message_new_method_call" to set
>> up the message, rather than "dbus_message_new_signal"
>
> I wasn't aware arch had that functionality actually; that should be
> fixed.
>
>> 2. git repo from today, pm-utils:
>> file pm-utils/pm/sleep.d/55NetworkManager
>>
>> This one still has the dbus-send without anything, no --print-reply and
>> no --type=method_call.
>
> right, I believe upstream pm-utils was leaning towards fixing dbus
> rather than this hack, but given that I don't believe upstream dbus will
> fix the issue soon, we may have to go back to pm-utils upstream and
> convince them to take the fix.

I don't mind if it has to be done as a workaround in pm-utils, I'm
just concerned that it will bitrot and the real fix will never happen.
NM (Dan) has been such a huge advocate of "fix the drivers instead of
papering over it", and I believe that has had a massively positive
effect in the long term. I'd at least like to get an idea of what the
real issue is with dbus-send and what it would take to get it fixed
before pushing this into upstream pm-utils so everyone can have resume
slowed down by 2 seconds.

> The other thing I was going to do was just to ship the pm-utils files in
> NetworkManager, thus we can do what we want with them.

There's already a bug open about this and it's probably the right
thing to do, but it just moves the hack from one place to another.

--
Dan