Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:48:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith <msmith@freebsd.org> To: "Daniel C. Sobral" <dcs@newsguy.com> Cc: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org>, cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpivar.h acpi.c Message-ID: <200101152148.f0FLmKs00865@mass.osd.bsdi.com> In-Reply-To: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:01:18 %2B0900." <3A62CA6E.393192FD@newsguy.com>
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> > 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.
No, the sysctls are glue for tweaking the ACPI subsystem's internal
behaviour. There's design work on a unified "environmental manangement"
API kicking around, but nothing has really crystallised yet.
In the meantime, having these masquerade as anything that they're not
would just be silly.
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