I'm a bit off-topic here, but seeing how this bug is about moving
functionality from acpi-support to laptop-mode, I'm wondering if you
know where pm-utils fits in?

That package also does a bit of toggling power saving functions when
switching between mains/battery.  I recently submitted a patch for SATA
ALPM, too.  However I have no idea if there actually is a strategy to
gather up all of those scripts in pm-utils or laptop-mode (and
eventually deprecate the other) or if they're supposed to be
(arbitrarily) distributed between them.  It seems a rather chaotic at
the moment, to be frank.  I wonder if there's any official "master plan"
here...

Anyway, I hope your patch makes it in (as well as the one for acpi-
support).  But in order for it to work properly /etc/default/acpi-
support also needs to be updated to ENABLE_LAPTOP_MODE=true which really
should be the default -  the machines that get "odd hangs" should be
blacklisted instead of ruining battery runtime for everyone...

That setting is good example of the chaos I mentioned above, by the
way...  You'll need to enable functionality provided by package A which
is controlled by package B in a configuration file for package C -
yikes!

Well, that turned halfway into a rant - apologies.  Anyway.  If there's
any Ubuntu devs listening, please do apply this patch and the one in
#250938 before Intrepid, as the way the three power management packages
interact now is clearly broken.  And hopefully there'll be some strategy
to clean up the power management soon.  The current state of things is
just depressing.  If somebody can point out the overall direction I'd
love to help out with patches - I'd love to see Ubuntu being able to
squeeze the maximum uptime possible out of my battery.  :-)

Tore

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[intrepid] laptop-mode-tools needs to change its default settings to match 
acpi-support and add hooks for pm-utils
https://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/250935
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