Re: [RFC] Getting rid of useless daemons

From: Cesar Eduardo Barros (cesarb@web4u.com.br)
Date: Sun Apr 30 2000 - 09:04:17 EST


On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 07:15:23AM +0200, Simon Richter wrote:
> On Sat, 29 Apr 2000, Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>
> > acpid (as far as I know at least) is like apmd but also parses the
> > ACPI tables (easy to do within a boot script, at the same spot acpid
> > would be loaded).
>
> The power management policy daemons (apmd and the soon-to-come acpipold)
> are not part of the kernel in my opinion, since the subsystem will work
> without this daemon, so I'm against including them in the kernel.
>

I'm against including them in the kernel too. I'm for replacing them by
programs called from userspace like modprobe.

-- 
Cesar Eduardo Barros
cesarb@web4u.com.br
cesarb@dcc.ufrj.br

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