standby and cd discovery

[Nils Philippsen]

On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:32 +0200, Hans Ulrich Niedermann wrote:
> Nils Philippsen wrote:
> > On Tue, 2008-09-16 at 13:08 +0200, Christoph Höger wrote:
> 
> >> Whenever I put my thinkpad to sleep (standby), with a cd in the drive
> >> and resume, that cd pops up as a folder as if I inserted it. 
> >> Thats annoying. After the third standby/resume cycle I _know_ whats on
> >> that disc!
> >> Does anyone know if this is _really_ a bug or how to fix it (if its
> >> fixable it should propably be fixed in the release version)?
> > 
> > I would say this is a bug. Suspending a machine should just "pause" the
> > system and the behaviour afterwards should be the same as if you hadn't
> > suspended the machine at all.
> 
> Not in all respects.
> 
> A common usecase is you sit at place A connected to WLAN A, suspend the 
> box, move it, and resume it at place B. It does not make sense now to
> try sending to WLAN A for a minute (which feels like an eternity), and 
> only then consider that we might want to look for other WLANs or wired 
> LANs to connect to.
> 
> You'd want the resume to trigger action much more quickly.


Of course it should quickly detect that it can't reach the old WLAN
anymore, but that's just the same if the system is continually running.
To avoid that moving your laptop out of reception range and moving it
back in breaks the connection to quick, a slightly modified behavior in
the suspend/resume case might be needed, admittedly. If "something" is
"connected" after the resume that was "connected" before, it should just
continue, if "something" isn't "connected" anymore, it should just act
as if the plug was pulled.

Nils
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