linux-kernel - Re: hibernate/suspend-to-disk: to turn power or not?

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Message-ID: <47A10A4F.3060203@msgid.tls.msk.ru>
Date:	Thu, 31 Jan 2008 02:37:51 +0300
From:	Michael Tokarev <mjt@....msk.ru>
To:	nigel@...el.suspend2.net
CC:	Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: hibernate/suspend-to-disk: to turn power or not?

Nigel Cunningham wrote:
[]
> That should be doable. How is your UPS connected? Presumably, with some
> modifications to the appropriate driver, we could send the commands when
> we're ready to shutdown. It would probably be useful whether or not your
> hibernating (if not, sending the commands could always be made an option).

You mean adding stuff to some KERNEL driver?  Like to a serial driver if
the UPS is connected to a COM-port??

I'm afraid either I don't understand what you're talking about here, or,
if I got you right, that YOU don't understand what you're talking about...

Come on, teaching kernel about various idiotic UPSes out there is more
than insane... ;)

/mjt
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