Cesar Eduardo Barros wrote:
>
> On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 09:02:28AM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > Cesar Eduardo Barros writes:
> > > Now I think it's time to get rid of apmd, acpid and devfsd.
> > >
> > > apmd could be changed into an executable "callback", like kmod/modprobe.
> >
> > I don't think that would be a good idea. I'm already seeing apmd-induced
> > problems, and this will make it worse. Take the following example:
> >
> > 1. hit the standby button
> > 2. The laptop blanks its display, and tells the hard drive to spin down
> > 3. apmd gets woken and writes a message to syslog, which writes it to the
> > hard drive.
>
> And in some systems, apmd calls a script after that step.
[...]
In a lot of ways apmd discussions are moot since the world is moving to
ACPI and acpid...
Jeff
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