Avery Pennarun wrote:

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Not APM support exactly... simply support for the same interface.  Just
like powermacs have totally different sound systems and still use
/dev/dsp.
/proc/apm and /dev/apm_bios are so simple that it should be easy to
convince any power management system to provide those API's.

The info logged to /proc/apm is currently logged to /etc/power/apm. I have

Is this a typo?  Why is status information in /etc?

Because it's from pmud, which can't create /proc entries.

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independent. I just don't see a good reason to change from pmud to apmd,
if that's what you're suggesting.

It's always better, IMHO, to keep Linux userspace as similar as possible
between different architectures.  If pmud has features that apmd doesn't
have, or vice versa, I would rather merge them than keep them separate.  In
the process, we might as well work on making the kernel interfaces similar
too.  That's the whole _point_ of the kernel.

I agree there.


Michel


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