Subject: kern/10066: Apm(4) describe obsolete APM_NO_POWER_PRINT option.
To: None <gnats-bugs@gnats.netbsd.org>
From: None <taca@sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp>
List: netbsd-bugs
Date: 05/07/2000 23:33:11
>Number:         10066
>Category:       kern
>Synopsis:       Apm(4) describe obsolete APM_NO_POWER_PRINT option.
>Confidential:   no
>Severity:       non-critical
>Priority:       low
>Responsible:    kern-bug-people
>State:          open
>Class:          doc-bug
>Submitter-Id:   net
>Arrival-Date:   Sun May 07 23:34:00 PDT 2000
>Closed-Date:
>Last-Modified:
>Originator:     Takahiro Kambe
>Release:        NetBSD-current 2000/5/7
>Organization:
	
>Environment:
	
System: NetBSD land.sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp 1.4Y NetBSD 1.4Y (LAND) #34: Mon May 8 07:43:08 JST 2000 taca@land.sky.yamashina.kyoto.jp:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/LAND i386


>Description:
	Apm(4) describe obsolete APM_NO_POWER_PRNIT option which was
	relpaced with APM_POWER_PRNIT option.
>How-To-Repeat:
	Look at apm(4).
>Fix:
	Please correct better words.  :-(

--- src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4.orig	Tue Mar 21 09:10:30 2000
+++ src/share/man/man4/man4.i386/apm.4	Mon May  8 15:31:47 2000
@@ -69,10 +69,11 @@
 Enable kernel printout of events received from the APM BIOS.
 .It Dv APMCALLDEBUG
 Enable kernel printout of every call to the APM BIOS (this is very noisy).
-.It Dv APM_NO_POWER_PRINT
-Do not print power state on console at
+.It Dv APM_POWER_PRINT
+Print power state on console at
 .Dv APM_POWER_CHANGE
-events.  (Some systems generate the events too frequently,
+events.  (Since it increase syslogd(8)'s activity, it use extra power from
+the battery.  And some systems generate the events too frequently,
 and printing the status may disturb single-user operations.)
 .It Dv APM_DISABLE_INTERRUPTS
 Set this to zero if you don't want the kernel to disable interrupts

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