Re: [PATCH] preserve correct battery state through suspend/resume cycles

[Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>]

On Tue 2006-10-10 00:52:09, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 8 October 2006 20:42, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > Hi!
> > 
> > > > boot -> suspend -> (un)plug battery -> resume
> > > > 
> > > > The problem arises in both cases - i.e. suspend with battery plugged in, 
> > > > and resume with battery unplugged, or vice versa.
> > > > 
> > > > After resume, when the battery status has changed (plugged in -> unplegged 
> > > > or unplugged -> plugged in) during the time when the system was sleeping, 
> > > > the /proc/acpi/battery/*/* is wrong (showing the state before suspend, not 
> > > > the current state).
> > > 
> > > Is this also needed if you use "platform" method? Also with suspend-to-RAM?
> > > 
> > > > The following patch adds ->resume method to the ACPI battery handler, which
> > > > has the only aim - to check whether the battery state has changed during sleep, 
> > > > and if so, update the ACPI internal data structures, so that information 
> > > > published through /proc/acpi/battery/*/* is correct even after suspend/resume
> > > > cycle, during which the battery was removed/inserted.
> > > 
> > > Although it generally is a good idea to add suspend and resume methods to
> > > all ACPI drivers, it would be interesting to know if you still need this
> > > when using the correct method (platform) instead of the incorrect default
> > > method (shutdown).
> > > 
> > > echo "platform" > /sys/power/disk
> > > echo "disk" > /sys/power/state
> > 
> > Maybe we should change the default in 2.6.20 or so?
> 
> Well, I think swsusp should work with "shutdown" just as well.  If it doesn't,
> that means there are some bugs in the ACPI code which should be fixed.
> By using "platform" as the default method we'll be hiding those bugs IMHO.
> 
> OTOH that may be desirable. ;-)

You are right. We probably want both: suspend/resume method in battery
driver _and_ platform mode used by default.
									Pavel
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