On Mon, 02 Mar 2009, Richard Hughes wrote: > standby = sleep CPU and devices (not really used any more) > suspend = sleep to memory (quite fast) > hibernate = sleep to disk (slow) > hybrid = sleep to both (slow, but fast resume) > > In X, and evdev we've also fixed the mapping, so that: > > XF86Sleep : suspend _or_ hibernate (configured in session policy) > XF86Suspend: suspend > XF86Hibernate: hibernate And when hybrid is to be used it gets hooked to hibernate, correct? > I propose that we add a KEY_HIBERNATE (key 247), and then we can just > do: > > KEY_HIBERNATE -> XF86Hibernate -> sleep to disk > KEY_SUSPEND -> XF86Suspend -> sleep to ram > KEY_SLEEP -> XF86Sleep -> sleep (configurable) I'd like that. I'd also like a LOT if proper documentation were added next to the KEY_ defines... > Then the drivers can be patched so everyone is doing the same thing. At > the moment I'm diagnosing bugs and trying to work around the brokenness > in userspace hal-info every few days, and it's getting tiresome. > > Feedback welcome, although please don't comment on things like "suspend > sounds more like a suspend to disk" as we spent years talking with > userspace people working for a compromise, and this is what we've > settled on. It's not to everyones taste, but we _do_ need to agree on > something, even if its just an agreed bodge. > > Would patches be accepted to fix this? FWIW, I think it is a good idea, and I'd take patches for thinkpad-acpi. But I would appreciate that the commit log discloses the userspace versions of stuff like HAL that have the desired behaviour. -- "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-input" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
