Comment 16 for bug 812394

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Ted Gould (ted) wrote : Re: [Bug 812394] Re: Disable hibernate option when it is not supported

On Mon, 2011-08-22 at 11:21 +0000, Martin Pitt wrote:
> My gut feeling is that we should just disable hibernation by default,
> period (and perhaps provide an Ui configuration bit to enable it).
> Maintaining and checking a whitelist will just cause a lot of
> unnecessary effort which won't actually help a lot.

The question becomes: how do HW vendors that *do* care about Ubuntu
enough to ensure that hibernation works on their system express that so
that we know we're on one of those systems?

I think that we'd like them to be able to self select by adding
themselves to some sort of list.