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Date:      Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:47:21 -0800 (PST)
From:      John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>
To:        "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com>
Cc:        cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org
Subject:   Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpivar.h acpi.c
Message-ID:  <XFMail.010115114721.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
In-Reply-To: <3A62CA6E.393192FD@newsguy.com>

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On 15-Jan-01 Daniel C. Sobral wrote:
> John Baldwin wrote:
>> 
>> jhb         2001/01/13 13:28:57 PST
>> 
>>   Modified files:
>>     sys/dev/acpica       acpivar.h acpi.c
>>   Log:
>>   Add 3 new dynamic sysctl's to control the sleep states switched to on a
>>   power button, sleep button, or lid close event.  The sysctl's use the
>>   ACPI sleep state names S0, S1, S2, S3, S4, S4B, and S5.
> 
> Is that a good thing? I mean, whatever the code uses, the sysctl is
> supposed to be used by people who have *not* read the ACPI standard, and
> thus have no idea what those states mean.

These are the only names they have.  And having the value '6' for S5 is not
intuitive.  This was reviewed by the acpi-jp list as well, FWIW.

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