On Sat, 02 Feb 2008 04:12:07 +0100 Michael Biebl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> first of all, thanks for your efforts. > The original intent of Tim Dykstra, who removed pm-pmu from the Debian > pm-utils package, was, that the functionality of pm-pmu is already > existent in s2ram (from the uswsusp package). Dropping pm-pmu from > pm-utils also made pm-utils an architecture:all package, which means, it > only contains shell scripts. This has the advantage, that pm-utils > doesn't have to be compiled for all the different architectures. Adding some background to this... I did this also because I think the different interface to suspend the machine on powerpc is a kernel bug. Fixes for bugs/quirks are in the s2ram binary, hence that seemed to be the right place for this one too. Also, when I decided this, there was a kernel-patch (by Johannes Berg IIRC) with a fix for this behavior. At that time I got the impression that it was about to be accepted upstream. That strengthened my believe that pm-pmu shouldn't be in pm-utils. It appears the patch still isn't applied, I still think however that the current setup in debian is correct and the way to go. (If we manage to get a one line fix in one of pm-utils scripts.) grts Tim
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