Re: CVS commit: src/etc/powerd/scripts

[Jukka Ruohonen <jruohonen%iki.fi@localhost>]

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.

- Jukka.