Re: CVS commit: src/etc/powerd/scripts

[Jean-Yves Migeon <jeanyves.migeon%free.fr@localhost>]

On 31.12.2010 19:51, David Young wrote:
> IMO, we should put the system to sleep by sending a
> power-saving/wakeup-latency goal and a set of waking events (e.g.,
> keystroke, mouse movement, LAN activity) to the root device_t using
> drvctl.  To put any smaller set of devices to sleep, send the goal &
> wake events to some subtree.

I haven't looked at the details of the ioctl(), but I would expect it to
be used against /dev/drvctl, no?

This seems plausible to me; at least, suspend/sleep should be part of
pmf(9) (even in my Xen's case, all driver sleep/wake coded uses pmf(9)).

> FWIW, the sleep states that ACPI names are not sufficient even to
> describe all of the potential sleep states of ACPI hardware.  I have a
> laptop that's perfectly capable of an "S3-like" sleep, but the ACPI BIOS
> doesn't support S3, and the HDD is not formatted properly for the S4
> sleep.

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