From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S261951AbVDKUUX (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:20:23 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S261959AbVDKUTI (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:19:08 -0400 Received: from web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com ([206.190.37.189]:15025 "HELO web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com") by vger.kernel.org with SMTP id S261951AbVDKURm (ORCPT ); Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:17:42 -0400 Message-ID: <20050411201741.73077.qmail@web88002.mail.re2.yahoo.com> Date: Mon, 11 Apr 2005 16:17:41 -0400 (EDT) From: Shawn Starr Subject: Re: [ACPI] [2.6.12-rc2][suspend] Suspending Thinkpad: drive bay light in S3 mode stays on To: Matthew Garrett Cc: acpi-devel@lists.sourceforge.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: 6667 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Sure, I suppose you can, but most suspend tools just echo stuff to /sys (or still /proc/acpi/sleep) which makes it harder to script it. Besides, when a laptop goes into suspend to RAM there should be no extra power on except a Moon or some other icon. That said, the ACPI thinkpad extras was designed to do all of this so why shouldn't the driver do S3 suspend if it hooks into it already? Shawn. --- Matthew Garrett wrote: > On Mon, 2005-04-11 at 16:03 -0400, Shawn Starr > wrote: > > I notice in Linux and in XP the drive bay light > > remains on while the laptop is in suspend-to-RAM. > I > > know the ACPI thinkpad extras added to the kernel > > recently can turn this off. I wonder if we can/or > need > > to write hooks to turn the light off so to > conserve > > power when we're in S3 > > Just disable it in your suspend script. There's no > reason to push that > sort of policy into the kernel. > > -- > Matthew Garrett | mjg59@srcf.ucam.org > >