On Sun, Apr 30, 2000 at 11:58:47AM -0400, Jeff Garzik wrote:
> 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...
>
Not really, since acpid will probably do whatever apmd is doing now...
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