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  From: <Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au>
  To  : <craigm@milkyway.gsfc.nasa.gov>
  Date: Fri, 14 May 1999 23:39:27 +1000

Re: apmd feature request

Hi Craig,

Craig Markwardt <craigm@pcasun3.gsfc.nasa.gov> writes:
> 
> I have a working version of apmd which does many of the things that I
> described in my original message.  One major issue was that it
> requires some kernel support.  The kernel APM code, as it stands now,
> does not allow a user-level program such as apmd to reject any suspend
> or standyby events.  I felt that this would be important for true
> power management.
> 
> I made some patches to do this, and submitted them to Stephen
> Rothwell, the kernel APM maintainer, but they were promptly lost in
> the press to finish Linux 2.2.

Yeah, that and I disappeared under a mountain of real work! :-(  I am
now just coming up for air, so things will hopefully get going again.
(Also, I managed to revive the flash BIOS on my machine with APM!)

> We can:
>  * ignore the kernel stuff, but implement an event 
>    "dispatcher" for everthing else.
>  * make our own independent kernel changes.

Hopefully, I can make this unnecessary.

Cheers,
Stephen
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Stephen Rothwell                    Stephen.Rothwell@canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/