On 3/2/07, Stefan Seyfried <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, Mar 02, 2007 at 05:34:54PM +0100, Pavel Machek wrote: > > That whitelist should have been in kernel; we can't do that, but it > > still makes sense to keep it at low level. > > Then go ahead and push that to them. > You also need to be able to tell the user if he can suspend - right now > he can't know, unless he is root - and you need an easy way to update the > whitelist without updating the suspend package. > And vendors need to be able to put data for their machine into the database, > without updating the suspend package.
This is easy... we can use the same approach of pciutils, i.e. store the db in /usr/share/whatever/s2ram.txt and provide a small script to download the updated version from the web. The DMI table is then loaded from the file instead of being hardcoded. I can code that if it's interesting enough... Luca ------------------------------------------------------------------------- Take Surveys. Earn Cash. Influence the Future of IT Join SourceForge.net's Techsay panel and you'll get the chance to share your opinions on IT & business topics through brief surveys-and earn cash http://www.techsay.com/default.php?page=join.php&p=sourceforge&CID=DEVDEV _______________________________________________ Suspend-devel mailing list Suspend-devel@lists.sourceforge.net https://lists.sourceforge.net/lists/listinfo/suspend-devel
