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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 1998 00:03:55 -0800
From:      Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
To:        Warner Losh <imp@village.org>
Cc:        Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>, current@FreeBSD.ORG, mobile@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change 
Message-ID:  <199812110803.AAA00533@dingo.cdrom.com>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Thu, 10 Dec 1998 22:16:04 MST." <199812110516.WAA66364@harmony.village.org> 

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> : Why the change?  The current behavior seems right to me.
> 
> Actually, rather than argue this into the ground, would you object to
> my implementing a
> 
> options	APM_MAP_HALT_TO_POWER_OFF
> 
> and checking it in to apm.c and LINT?

Yes.  There is a perfectly good set of run-time options which allow you 
to determine at any time whether you want to power-off or halt; having 
a kernel option override this would be stupid.

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\\  sometimes you're behind.      \\  mike@smith.net.au
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