Jeff Garzik writes:
> > > In a lot of ways apmd discussions are moot since the world is moving to
> > > ACPI and acpid...
> >
> > It is very hard to retrofit ACPI to an existing machine
>
> Granted :) I'm just saying that the world isn't building new machines
> with APM in mind[1], and future kernel power management will probably be
> along the lines of ACPI, with APM support playing catchup where
> possible.
So we shouldn't do our best to fix it for existing machines? I don't
understand that attitude. In fact, one of Linux' strong points is supporting
technology which isn't "the latest cutting-edge".
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