Re: [ACPI] [2.6.12-rc2][suspend] Suspending Thinkpad: drive baylight in S3 mode stays on

From: Matthew Garrett
Date: Mon Apr 11 2005 - 15:20:10 EST


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.

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Matthew Garrett | mjg59@xxxxxxxxxxxxx

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