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  From: Avery Pennarun <apenwarr@worldvisions.ca>
  To  : Edward A. Falk <falconer@best.com>
  Date: Wed, 8 Dec 1999 19:23:16 -0500

Re: Control apm

On Wed, Dec 08, 1999 at 12:54:22PM -0800, Edward A. Falk wrote:

> My solution to controlling apm was to add some kernel ioctls to
> the apm driver.  These let you enable/disable apm, set the
> resume timer, and so on.  I also wrote some command-line
> programs that use the new ioctls:  apm_enable, apm_disable, etc.
> 
> Now I see that most of my work was probably redundant.  Still if
> anybody would like to take a look, maybe integrate some of my new
> ioctls into the kernel, it's at:
> 
> 	http://www.best.com/~falconer/apm.tar.gz

Without actually looking at your code (sorry, too busy) I'd say that the
ability to enable/disable kernel APM support at run time is very important,
and that I'd prefer that all of these features be merged into the single
'apm.c' command line program, for the sake of consistency.

Have fun,

Avery