Hi

On Wed, Sep 24, 2014 at 3:32 AM, Tim  wrote:
On Tue, 2014-09-23 at 18:25 -0400, Rahul Sundaram wrote:
> this is essentially how OS X and Windows does it as well.

never been a good excuse...

It is a factor that must be considered.  Believe it or not,  Linux is highly influenced by how the industry in general moves and even emulates Windows behavior in things like ACPI.

Rahul