[ltp] silly suspend behaviour

Andre Parrish linux-thinkpad@www.bm-soft.com
Fri, 3 Mar 2000 10:57:19 -0500 (EST)


On 3 Mar 2000, Georg C. F. Greve wrote:

> Does anyone know of a way to turn on/off whether user suspend events
> are ignored by the kernel?
> 
> The reason for this is simple: when I tell my machine to sutdown -h on
> a total powerfail without electricity in sight it starts shutting down
> only to do a "emergency suspend" due to low power. When waking it up
> again via keypresses it shuts down normally so there is definitely
> more than enough power left for it. 
> 
> So I would like to be able to turn this emergency suspend off when the
> system is already shutting down.

In recent kernels, this can be disabled from "make menuconfig", in the
kernel building process. It's a checkbox under the "Advanced Power 
Management BIOS support" section.  

							-Andre

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