Am Freitag, 22. Mai 2009 17:33:57 schrieb Pavel Machek: > > Take ACPI for example, ACPI defines two ACPI battery states, one is > > "low" and another is "critical". > > OS enters S3/S4 when battery is low, while it performs an emergency > > shutdown when battery is in critical state. (ACPI spec 3.0b 3.9.4) > > So I'm wondering if it's right to enter S3 when we know that the system > > may lost power at anytime. > > Well, battery only lasts like 30 hours in S3. So if you leave your > notebook unattended for 30 hours, you'll loose recent changes. Even if the battery is very low you get 30 hours? Regards Oliver -- 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