On Wed, 11 Oct 2006, Steven M. Bellovin wrote:
> In a separate vein, the laptop support for ACPI just isn't good enough
> yet; it doesn't provide enough functionality.  I'd love to run ACPI
> (partly because I want the better battery status information), but I'd have
> to give up USB support, which just isn't worth it.  There was a wonderful
> burst of progress a few months ago, but nothing recently.

We are talking about using envsys as an API vs. /dev/apm, not removing 
apm(4) support from the kernel.

Cheers,
Jared