Ubuntu
acpi-support package

  1. Bug #229693
  2. Comment #13

Comment 13 for bug 229693

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Alexey Borzenkov (snaury) wrote :

I've read a lot of comments that suggest crippling laptop-mode-tools even more than it already is. The problem is that laptop-mode-tools is the only place that DOESN'T HARDCODE VALUES. Why do I have to fight hardcoded values in /etc/acpi/power.sh and /usr/lib/pm-utils/power.d/laptop-tools to make my custom values in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf work?

I think it's bad to hardcode values. They should be editable in one way or the other, and editing system scripts (that could get "updated" later) is not good. So the way I see it laptop-mode-tools is the way to go. You should let it do what it can do. It already can handle apm power management, spindown times, and /proc/sys/vm/laptop_mode. Why hardcoding this functionality in other scripts when you could just come up with the same defaults in /etc/laptop-mode/laptop-mode.conf?

Please don't cripple laptop-mode-tools. Let it do its work instead.