On Fri, 15 May 2009, Pavel Machek wrote: > > thinkpad-acpi receives some critical alarms from the firmware, for which the > > recommended action by the vendor is to go into S3 immediately. There is > > also one which requires S4 as the recommended damage control measure. > > While s2ram should always work on hardware that supports it (zaurus), > S4 is more tricky. It needs swap to be configured, and userspace > cooperation in uswsusp case. Yeah, this really calls for issuing some sort of event to userspace that has the "emergency" connotation, so that desktop enviromnents don't start doing retarted things like asking the user stupid questions when the machine has 30 seconds left of battery juice, or got waken up from S3 due to a critically hot thermal alarm. > I guess sending signal to init would be right solution in that > case. (ACPI already does that on overheat.) I will look into this. -- "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
