[Testing] Final review for Power Management Requirements, Trial-2

[Kim Quirk]

Jim and others,
I added your explanation to the Requirements since it isn't obvious to all
the people who might read the requirements as to why the suspend button is a
good thing:  http://wiki.laptop.org/go/Requirements

By the way -- since we have the suspend button now, maybe closing the lid
should turn wireless off as well. On the rare case where the laptop is being
used as a mesh relay, the student probably has to know that and has been
instructed to leave his laptop open with antennas adjusted and hit the
suspend button.  That would save a lot of power!!

Walter,
Adding Walter to this email -- can you please review the Power Management
Requirements at this link. The other topics on the Requirements page haven't
had much discussion yet, but feel free to comment on those as well.


Thanks,
Kim



On 7/19/07, Jim Gettys <jg at laptop.org> wrote:
>
>
> The difference is the following:
>
> If you've adjusted your antennae, closing the lid will destroy the
> adjustment, and take the antennae to the ground if the laptop is on the
> ground.
>
> Since we want the mesh up, this is *bad*.  Really bad....  So closing
> the lid isn't good behavior to encourage.
>
> Explaining to a 7 year old under what circumstances an idle governor
> (which we don't have yet) will suspend the machine (or not) is way to
> complicated: what is more, only the kid knows if (s)he's really done
> with what they were doing.
>
> So the point of the button press is an explicit way to force a suspend,
> preserve the mesh, and have something we can explain.
>
> The fact that it doesn't turn off the screen yet, as was commented on
> before, is incorrect: pushing the power button should in fact force a
> suspend and turn everything off except wireless.
>                                      - Jim
>
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