On Fri, Jun 18, 2010 at 1:21 AM, Michael Biebl <[email protected]> wrote: > Hi Victor, > > I committed a few small man pages fixes to the 1.4 branch and a video > quirk that was reported in Debian/Ubuntu to the video-quirks branch. > Attached are two more patches I currently ship in Debian and which > might be suitable upstream: > 08-fix-lock-file-handling.patch: > It uses flock to make the lock file handling more robust instead of > our home grown solution > Original Debian bug report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=568565
Looks good, go ahead and push it. > 09-document-add-drop-parameters.patch: > It documents the ADD_PARAMETER/DROP_PARAMETER as mechanism how to pass > video-quirks to pm-utils (I assume this still the recommended way) Sorta -- the recommended way is to either just pass the appropriate quirks on the command line, or have an entry in the quirkdb for your system. You might want to make a note about submitting an update to the quirk database if you have to use ADD_PARAMETERS or DROP_PARAMETERS to make things work. > Original Debian bug report: > http://bugs.debian.org/cgi-bin/bugreport.cgi?bug=485443 > > 2010/6/15 Victor Lowther <[email protected]>: >> On Sat, 2010-06-12 at 13:35 -0500, Victor Lowther wrote: >>> Another few months, another pm-utils version. >>> >>> Major changes in this release: >>> >>> * The pm-utils git tree includes infrastructure to build .deb packages, >>> .rpm packages. and Arch Linux .tar packages. These are not intended >>> to replace distro packaging, and are not included in the release tarballs. >>> >>> Patches to make them work for distro releases are welcome, along with >>> patches to add support in the git tree for other distros to make testing >>> easier. >>> >>> * We include some basic power management hooks. The individual hooks can >>> conflict with the ones provided by the laptop-mode-tools scripts, so you >>> should either just remove laptop-mode-tools entirely or pick and choose >>> between which package should handle what powersaving functionality. >>> >>> Currently, the hooks include defaults that work for me. Patches for >>> more universally sane defaults are accepted. >>> >>> If there are no major objections that cannot be worked out by Sunday, June >>> 20, >>> this will be released as pm-utils 1.4.0 along with an update of the >>> video quirks database. >> >> Fixed some bugs, now pm-utils-1.4.0-rc2 is available @ >> http://pm-utils.freedesktop.org/releases/pm-utils-1.4.0-rc2.tar.gz >> >> >> -- >> Victor Lowther >> LPIC2 UCP RHCE >> _______________________________________________ >> Pm-utils mailing list >> [email protected] >> http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils >> > > > > -- > Why is it that all of the instruments seeking intelligent life in the > universe are pointed away from Earth? > _______________________________________________ Pm-utils mailing list [email protected] http://lists.freedesktop.org/mailman/listinfo/pm-utils
