pm-suspend-hybrid support in DeviceKit-power and g-p-m (original) (raw)

Tomasz Torcz tomek at pipebreaker.pl
Wed Dec 2 05:26:07 PST 2009


On Wed, Dec 02, 2009 at 12:32:38PM +0000, Richard Hughes wrote:

2009/12/2 Victor Lowther <victor.lowther at gmail.com>: > What needs to be done to teach devicekit-power and gnome-power-manager > about hybrid suspend?  I am going to have a hybrid suspend mode as an > option in pm-utils that does not rely on userspace suspend or tuxonice, > but I am not offered hybrid suspend as an option in the GUI.

Right, you have to bear in mind the options g-p-m gives are the ones users understand. To a user: suspend = quick, but bad if my battery runs out hibernate = sloooow, but good if my battery runs out

suspend = eats battery hibernate = battery stays charged

So in that sense, I would think mapping the DeviceKit-power Hibernate() method [and thus g-p-m] to hybrid suspend on systems that support it to be a very good idea.

This way you would loose one great advantage of hibernate, namely not using battery.

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