Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:46:16 -0700 |
| |
> From: John Fremlin [mailto:chief@bandits.org] > [...] > > > Fair enough. I don't think I would be out of line to say that our > > resources are focused on enabling full ACPI functionality for Linux, > > including a full-featured PM policy daemon. That said, I don't think > > there's anything precluding the use of another daemon (or whatever) > > from using the ACPI driver's interface. > > ACPI != PM. I don't see why ACPI details should be exposed to PM > interface at all.
ACPI has by far the richest set of capabilities. It is a superset of APM. Therefore a combined APM/ACPI interface is going to look a lot like an ACPI interface.
IMHO an abstracted interface at this point is overengineering. Maybe later it will make sense, though.
Regards -- Andy
- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
| |