Re: System hang when trying to enter sleep/standby state
From: Karol Kozimor <hidden>
Date: 2003-02-12 20:36:37
Thus wrote Patrick Mochel:
ACPI should not allow a user to write '5' to that file. It used to be that way, but someone clever decided that that interface should support _all_ sleep states. (It might have been me, in one of my finer moments).
May I ask: why? Is it really dangerous to leave it like it is now? Does it break anything? I actually used it a couple of times, not bothering to hold my poweroff button for the time needed to poweroff the machine completely. As for potential dangers, I see many other ways of using the /proc interface that can be really *much* more harmful to the system, yet they don't cease to exist. However confusing it might be now, it is fully functional, at least. I can't really see any reason for crippling that functionality. Please, do leave it the way it is. Gosh, where's my manners... I hereby say hello to everyone. Hope you don't take the above too personal or whatever, I'm a newbie to ACPI and I might as well miss the whole point there. Regards, -- Karol 'sziwan' Kozimor sziwan-DETuoxkZsSqrDJvtcaxF/A@public.gmane.org ------------------------------------------------------- This sf.net email is sponsored by:ThinkGeek Welcome to geek heaven. http://thinkgeek.com/sf