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> 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

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