From owner-cvs-all Mon Jan 15 13:34:33 2001 Delivered-To: cvs-all@freebsd.org Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (dhcp45-24.dis.org [216.240.45.24]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3D51537B401; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:34:10 -0800 (PST) Received: from mass.osd.bsdi.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by mass.osd.bsdi.com (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0FLmKs00865; Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:48:24 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from msmith@mass.osd.bsdi.com) Message-Id: <200101152148.f0FLmKs00865@mass.osd.bsdi.com> X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 To: "Daniel C. Sobral" Cc: John Baldwin , cvs-committers@FreeBSD.org, cvs-all@FreeBSD.org Subject: Re: cvs commit: src/sys/dev/acpica acpivar.h acpi.c In-reply-to: Your message of "Mon, 15 Jan 2001 19:01:18 +0900." <3A62CA6E.393192FD@newsguy.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Mon, 15 Jan 2001 13:48:20 -0800 From: Mike Smith Sender: owner-cvs-all@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > > 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. -- ... every activity meets with opposition, everyone who acts has his rivals and unfortunately opponents also. But not because people want to be opponents, rather because the tasks and relationships force people to take different points of view. [Dr. Fritz Todt] V I C T O R Y N O T V E N G E A N C E To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe cvs-all" in the body of the message