[Pm-utils] Migrating suspend quirks away from hal

[Victor Lowther]

On Nov 13, 2009, at 7:30 AM, Martin Pitt <martin.pitt at ubuntu.com> wrote:

> Hello Victor, hello Richard, hello devkitters,
>
> in the past half year we have come quite far with the "halsectomy",
> i.e. deprecating hal [1]. The main two remaining items are now X.org
> input devices (where a patch is already being discussed), and the
> suspend quirks in pm-utils.
>
> I would like to push this forward a little. From what I can see, the
> are two sensible options:
>
> (1) Convert the hal-info suspend quirks to a simple text format and
>     put it into/maintain it directly in pm-utils.
>
>     → nice encapsulation, maintained at the place where they are
>     actually needed

I did this as an experiment last year, and it worked out well at the  
time. I will see if I still have that branch around somewhere to make  
available for comment.

> (2) Convert the quirks to udev rules shipped by/maintained in
>     dk-power, and pass the quirks to pm-{suspend,hibernate} as
>     command line arguments.
>
>     → we would benefit from the existing and efficient
>     vendor/model->properties matching capabilities of udev, but would
>     have to find an artificial device to attach them to (there is no
>     "computer object" in udev, unlike in hal)
>
> My personal preference is (1). Victor, Richard, what do you think?
>
> I am happy to create some scripts to convert the hal-info data to some
> text format or udev rules. I have a certain experience with that from
> converting keymaps [2] and music players [3], after all. :-)
>
> Thanks,
>
> Martin
>
> [1] https://wiki.ubuntu.com/Halsectomy
> [2] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-May/000171.html
> [3] http://lists.freedesktop.org/archives/devkit-devel/2009-June/000226.html
>
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