Re: Why don't we use _TTS method?

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Hi!

> I've got two questions regarding the implementation of the ACPI poweroff/sleep
> code in drivers/acpi/sleep and drivers/acpi/hardware .
> 
> 1) We don't seem to use the _TTS system-control method, although the ACPI
> specification (ACPI 3.0b) says that this method should be used for intiating
> and finishing power transitions.  Could you please tell me why we
> don't use it?

I guess we simply overlooked that :-(.

> 2) In the functions acpi_enter_sleep_state_prep(), acpi_enter_sleep_state(),
> acpi_leave_sleep_state() we manipulate GPEs quite extensively (we disable
> and enable them for a couple of times during a transition), although the
> specification doesn't tell anything about that explicitly.  Could you please
> explain to me what the purpose of that is?

We have had some notebooks auto-waking-up just after suspend. Perhaps
those hacks are workarounds for that problem?
									Pavel

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