Re: suspend / hibernate nomenclature

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On Sat, 07 Mar 2009, Matthew Garrett wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 02, 2009 at 11:13:49AM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:
> > After reviewing the platform drivers in ACPI, it appears few of them
> > know whether KEY_SLEEP corresponds to suspend or hibernate, and
> > KEY_SUSPEND seems to be used for hibernate. Basically, it's a mess.
> 
> KEY_SUSPEND has always been pretty clearly used for hibernate for, well, 
> forever. I don't think the distinction is a useful one. How many 
> machines are going to have both a sleep and a suspend key?

All machines with a standard crappy PeeCee keyboard with the moon key
have a KEY_SLEEP key, and you can plug a PeeCee USB keyboard in just
about anything nowadays... including on thinkpads, which have a key
that is specific for S4, and one that is specific for S3 in their
internal keyboards.

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