On Wed, 09 May 2007, Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Wed, May 09, 2007 at 07:00:07PM -0300, Henrique de Moraes Holschuh wrote: > > It will break all laptops which don't do anything special on lid events > > other than report it to the OS, so that we can do whatever we want > > (typically tell HAL or some script to suspend if the lid is closed). Like, > > say, thinkpads. > > Why would it do that? The obvious risk is that calling _DSS would break I was not talking about calling _DSS per se, but calling it when you get lid events. Nevertheless, it was actually a big thinko. It probably won't break anything, as you said. Sorry about that. And, if it is actually needed to turn the backlight back on when you press the lid *without triggering a suspend*, then it is probably going to be necessary. > things, but I haven't seen that on Thinkpads. I don't think Len's > proposing not passing the lid event through to userspace as well. Correct. As I said, it was a thinko on my part. -- "One disk to rule them all, One disk to find them. One disk to bring them all and in the darkness grind them. In the Land of Redmond where the shadows lie." -- The Silicon Valley Tarot Henrique Holschuh - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-acpi" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
