From: Andrew Morton <andrewm@uow.edu.au>
To: John Fremlin <vii@penguinpowered.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-power@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de,
Andy Henroid <andy_henroid@yahoo.com>,
apm@linuxcare.com.au, linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Unified power management userspace policy
Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 21:52:38 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <3A5AED76.B2F60F8D@uow.edu.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2lmsld4rk.fsf@boreas.yi.org.>
John Fremlin wrote:
>
> Hi all!
>
> At the moment there are two power management drivers in the linux
> kernel (AFAIK). They each have different userspace interfaces --
> /proc/apm and /dev/apmctl and /proc/sys/acpi/events or something. This
> is not altogether bad, but as they do the same thing, it might be nice
> to unify (part) of the interface. In fact this is already done for the
> in kernel interface with pm_send_all.
>
John,
Could you please use call_usermodehelper() in this patch
rather than exec_usermodehelper()? I want to kill
exec_usermodehelper() sometime.
Plus your code will be simpler - no need to create
your own kernel thread.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2001-01-09 10:46 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2001-01-08 23:05 John Fremlin
2001-01-09 10:52 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2001-01-09 13:54 ` John Fremlin
2001-01-09 14:13 ` Andrew Morton
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