On Mar 7, 2006, at 7:16 AM, Michael Lorenz wrote:

> Hello,
>
>>> Some code to talk to apmd is already there, after all we can
>>> (usually) report battery status.
>>
>> Would this glue with powerd(8) ? Should it ?
>
> No, powerd is for monitoring buttons and so on, it should however Just
> Work with apmd.

Powerd is really for a lot more than that.  The idea at the time I  
wrote it was that other event types and monitoring capabilities could  
be added later.

The /dev/apm interface should simply Go Away, as should apm(8) and  
apmd(8).

-- thorpej