On 7-Jul-07, at 7:55 PM, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> On Sat, 7 Jul 2007 19:31:36 -0400 (EDT)
> "Jared D. McNeill" <jmcneill@invisible.ca> wrote:
>> One small correction -- the issue isn't with our ACPI support, it is
>> a lack of proper power management within the USB HCD device drivers
>> (and most other device drivers on NetBSD as well). The fact that
>> suspend/resume works on some configurations is pretty much a fluke.
>>
> Understood, but it's a distinction without a difference.  On my T42, I
> can do suspend/resume with APM, but not with ACPI, which means that on
> ACPI-only machines, I'm toast.  (It's also why I may have to switch to
> FreeBSD or Linux in the fall, when I get a new laptop.  It's not that
> I want to; rather, it's that a laptop that doesn't do suspend/resume
> properly is useless to me.)

So, lets work on making it better :-)

Cheers,
Jared