From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 15 11:47:57 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from meow.osd.bsdi.com (meow.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.88]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id A1A5737B698; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:47:23 -0800 (PST) Received: from laptop.baldwin.cx (john@jhb-laptop.osd.bsdi.com [204.216.28.241]) by meow.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.9.3) with ESMTP id f0FJjn191252; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:45:49 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from jhb@FreeBSD.org) Message-ID: X-Mailer: XFMail 1.4.0 on FreeBSD X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <3A62CA6E.393192FD@newsguy.com> Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 11:47:21 -0800 (PST) From: John Baldwin To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpivar.h acpi.c Cc: cvs-all@FreeBSD.org, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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. -- John Baldwin -- http://www.FreeBSD.org/~jhb/ PGP Key: http://www.baldwin.cx/~john/pgpkey.asc "Power Users Use the Power to Serve!" - http://www.FreeBSD.org/ To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message