On Sun, Oct 21, 2012 at 11:07 AM, Ritesh Raj Sarraf <r...@researchut.com> wrote:
> The problem seemed to be caused because we were exiting if LMT was disabled
> in the config file. Attached patch should help improve your use case.
>
Yes, that is one of the problems. If I may suggest, to be more user-proof:
change:
echo "$ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE" |grep y
to:
echo "$ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE" | egrep -i "(y|1)"
Though, there's no /etc/default/laptop-mode installed on debian by LMT 1.61-1
> But I would like to change the way LMT invokes. Currently it is a hodge
> podge of /var/run/laptop-mode-tools/enabled and ENABLE_LMT settings.
Yes, please.
> * When invoked through init scripts, it touched the "enabled" file, then
> called LMT, realized that ENABLE_LMT was set to 0 and it exited. But it did
> not clean the "enabled" file. For that, I proposed the change in one of the
> previous emails.
Yes, that was the initial issue I was reporting.
> * When invoked through udev, we do not care or create the "enabled" file.
I had more issues with the default udev rules file added by LMT.
For that, I had overridden it in
/etc/udev/rules.d/99-laptop-mode.rules, with comments, as I intended
to report this to you as well (way back) and totally forgot.
# /lib/udev/power-lmt-udev runs both lmt & pm-powersave
SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ENV{POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE}=="0",
RUN+="/lib/udev/power-lmt-udev"
SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", ENV{POWER_SUPPLY_ONLINE}=="1",
RUN+="/lib/udev/power-lmt-udev"
# Laptop-mode-tools default rules below, and reasons for disabling them
# This generates 2 events, running script(s) twice. No good!
#ACTION=="change", SUBSYSTEM=="power_supply", RUN+="/lib/udev/lmt-udev auto"
# What is machinecheck? See: http://www.researchut.com/site/node/158
# We don't need it as we're handling LMT from
/etc/pm/sleep.d/01_laptop-mode-tools
#ACTION=="add|remove", SUBSYSTEM=="machinecheck", RUN+="/lib/udev/lmt-udev auto"
# We're also not using LMT's usb-autosuspend module
#ACTION=="add", SUBSYSTEM=="usb", RUN+="/lib/udev/lmt-udev force
modules=usb-autosuspend devices=%k"
=> LMT is also adding hooks for acpid in /etc/acpi/(actions|events)
and hooks for upower in (/etc/power/scripts.d|events.d) and even hooks
for the antiquated apmd in /etc/apm/event.d/ , even though it's not
even installed on my system.
i.e. All over the place. This caused me some grief.
udev+acpid+upowerd. Quite excessive I must say.
I had to edit each of the three lm_* files in /etc/acpi/events/, and
comment out the two lines in each of them.
So, can't this be better managed via a postinst script? Say it would:
1. detect available facilities (pm-utils/udev/acpid/upowerd/apmd),
pick one and only one, based on an ordered LMT preference list. Warn
the user if none of the recommended facilities are installed/enabled.
This could be later fixed by the user via dpkg-reconfigure
laptop-mode-tools, or whatever.
2. create symlinks to a common startup directory, say
/usr/share/laptop-mode-tools/startup-hooks/*, for event/script hooks
applicable to the chosen, available facility.
> With ENABLE_LMT=1, we get
>
> rrs@champaran:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto
> Warning: Configuration file /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/board-specific/*.conf is
> not readable, skipping.
> Laptop mode enabled
> active [unchanged]
N.B. in my pre-last email I attached a little patch that amends this
output. I really disliked getting two separate lines for each LMT
invocation in my pm-* logs, for only a few words.
The warning about board-specific conf is also quite annoying. What use
is "board-specific", as a (non-existent by default) sub-directory of
"conf.d", if "conf.d" itself already serves the purpose of a dynamic
user-configuration-include directory? There's also no mention of it in
the laptop-mode.conf manpage.
>
> With "enabled" file removed, it shows:
>
> rrs@champaran:~$ sudo rm /var/run/laptop-mode-tools/enabled
> rrs@champaran:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto
>
> Warning: Configuration file /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/board-specific/*.conf is
> not readable, skipping.
> Laptop mode
> disabled,
> not active [unchanged]
>
> So it just disabled LMT because it was not "enabled".
>
>
> And if "enabled" is set again, things go right.
>
> rrs@champaran:~$ sudo touch /var/run/laptop-mode-tools/enabled
> rrs@champaran:~$ sudo /usr/sbin/laptop_mode auto
>
> Warning: Configuration file /etc/laptop-mode/conf.d/board-specific/*.conf is
> not readable, skipping.
> Laptop mode
> enabled, active
>
Doesn't this fundamentally conflict with the purpose of "auto"?
Per the laptop_mode man-page:
auto Enable or disable laptop mode based on the current power
state. Note that this will not do anything if the laptop-mode service
has not been started!
>
> There are 2 items to fix.
>
> * Invocation
> * Status
>
> If you have time, you can review the patch and do some tests. Let me know.
>
And laptop_mode cleanups.. At the very least, lots of very old,
deprecated "backwards-compatibility" stuff needs to go.
I'm sorry, but overall, I really don't like the current state of LMT.
And although I have all power-management stuff scripted in a pm-utils
power.d script, I still find LMT useful for the disabling of
data-sensitive feature and the (system-level) auto-hibernate at
configurable low and critical battery levels (without polling)
feature.
LMT needs much more love than the patch you propose.
Hope I'm not being too harshly critical.
>
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> --
> Ritesh Raj Sarraf
> RESEARCHUT - http://www.researchut.com
> "Necessity is the mother of invention."
Kind Regards,
Jasmine
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