From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:46:28 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:46:19 -0500 Received: from horus.its.uow.edu.au ([130.130.68.25]:3308 "EHLO horus.its.uow.edu.au") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id ; Tue, 9 Jan 2001 05:46:06 -0500 Message-ID: <3A5AED76.B2F60F8D@uow.edu.au> Date: Tue, 09 Jan 2001 21:52:38 +1100 From: Andrew Morton X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.7 [en] (X11; I; Linux 2.4.0 i586) X-Accept-Language: en MIME-Version: 1.0 To: John Fremlin CC: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-power@phobos.fachschaften.tu-muenchen.de, Andy Henroid , apm@linuxcare.com.au, linux-laptop@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: Unified power management userspace policy In-Reply-To: Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.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. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/