On Fri, 31 Dec 2010, Jukka Ruohonen wrote:
On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 11:29:23AM +0100, Jean-Yves Migeon wrote:Seems reasonable to me. We could have a more featureful binary later, and just alias zzz(8) to it.We have ready ioctl-facilities in sysmon's "sysmon_power.c". I believe it was originally intended by the author that MD code should use the sysmon_power_settype() function to register a "power-backend" (ACPI, APM, Xen, PowerBook, and so on). Extending this idea seems like a plausible route.
Yes.However, the current implementation is simply a text string with no defined semantics. A back-end is able to set the value, and it can be retrieved via the POWER_IOC_GET_TYPE ioctl, but otherwise nothing uses the value.
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