[Debian-eeepc-devel] Bug#603430: Bug#603430: eeepc-acpi-scripts: Suspend to RAM takes several minutes since switch to acpi-support

[Ben Hutchings]

On Sat, 2010-11-13 at 21:40 -0400, Ben Armstrong wrote:
> On 13/11/10 06:51 AM, Axel Beckert wrote:
> > So please revert that change back so that eeepc-acpi-scripts handles the
> > suspend itself again. The current situation is unusable and you just
> > dropped a very well working feature of eeepc-acpi-scripts. Will
> > downgrade eeepc-acpi-scripts to 1.1.10 for now.
> 
> It's unlikely we will do this. We took a critical look at all of the
> various things eeepc-acpi-scripts was handling and had to decide where
> we overlapped (and what's worse, conflicted*) with more standard ways of
> doing things to cut the custom code from eeepc-acpi-scripts and use the
> standard approach instead.
> 
> If acpi-support alone doesn't work for you with the Squeeze kernel, then
> this bug probably belongs on acpi-support instead.
[...]

Well, first Axel should check that the kernel itself does the right
thing:

    echo mem > /sys/power/state

I agree with Ben's judgement that eeepc-acpi-scripts should be
minimised, though I would go further and say that ACPI quirks should
generally be handled in the kernel.

Ben.

-- 
Ben Hutchings
Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it makes it worse.
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