Re: [PATCH 2/2] Introduce CONFIG_SUSPEND

From: Richard Hughes
Date: Sun Jul 29 2007 - 17:36:07 EST


On Sun, 2007-07-29 at 23:36 +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> On Sunday, 29 July 2007 23:18, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 11:17:20PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > On Sunday, 29 July 2007 22:40, Adrian Bunk wrote:
> > > > On Sun, Jul 29, 2007 at 02:38:05PM +0200, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> > > > >...
> > > > > +config SUSPEND
> > > > > + bool "Suspend"
> > > > "Suspend to RAM"
> > >
> > > Not only. This also includes "standby".
> >
> > Whatever it includes - please tell it to the user in the prompt.
> >
> > Technical issues are important, but it's often forgotten how many
> > problems people run into because the description of a kconfig option
> > could have been better.
>
> Sure. Please see the updated patch I've just sent. :-)

So are you guys using:

"standby" = idle state, ~0.5 seconds
"suspend" = sleep to ram, ~10 seconds
"hibernate" = sleep to disk, ~30 seconds

If so - you rock. This is the common nomenclature I've been pushing for
a few months now in GNOME, KDE and general userspace. I've written up a
spec here:
http://cvs.gnome.org/viewcvs/*checkout*/gnome-power-manager/docs/sleep-names.html

Richard.


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