Brian Cameron wrote: > > Simon: > > I am a bit confused by this patch. I thought that the ON Power > Management team was planning to take over ownership of > gnome-sys-suspend. Or, at the very least, they were going to > provide a new command line tool that did all the actual work > and gnome-sys-suspend would become a GUI wrapper around this. Randy said ON PM team will only take sys-suspend rather than gnome-sys-suspend. Sys-suspend will be removed with CDE and replaced with a pure command line tool called poweradm.
So gnome-sys-suspend is still owned by ourselves. As you said, gnome-sys-suspend would become a GUI wrapper, i.e, displaying a dialog with selectable actions, "suspend", "hibernate", "reboot", and "shutdown". But rewriting and delivering new gnome-sys-suspend might be need a while, and it also depends on ON team's schedule. > > So I am confused why were are updating gnome-sys-suspend like > this. Or is this a stop-gap solution until the ON Power Management > team can provide the CLI tool? Yes. This patch is only a stop gap solution until new low-level tool is ready. I think it is necessary since more and more X86 machines are ready for Suspend to RAM. Now we have Ultra 20 and Ultra 40, and TOSHIBA laptop will be coming soon. Thanks, -Simon > > Brian > > >> Please review the patch for bug. >> http://monaco.sfbay.sun.com/detail.jsf?cr=6656956 - gnome-sys-suspend >> doesn't work on Ultra 20 >> >> Suspending to RAM on X86 is introduced already. But gnome-sys-suspend >> doesn't support it. This patch will support new system call >> interfaces "AD_SUSPEND_TO_RAM" and "AD_CHECK_SUSPEND_TO_RAM" on X86. >> I guess we possibly release a new tarball for this. >> >> Thanks, >> -Simon >> >
