On Pá 10-02-06 09:06:43, Stefan Seyfried wrote: > On Wed, Feb 08, 2006 at 12:57:53PM +0000, Matthew Garrett wrote: > > The included patch adds support for power management methods to register > > callbacks in order to allow drivers to check if the system is on AC or > > not. Following patches add support to ACPI and APM. Feedback welcome. > > Ok. Maybe i am not seeing the point. But why do we need this in the kernel? > Can't we handles this easily in userspace? Some kernel parts need to now: for example powernow-k8: some frequencies are not allowed when you are running off battery. [Just now it is solved by not allowing those frequencies at all unless ACPI is available; quite an ugly solution.] Pavel -- Web maintainer for suspend.sf.net (www.sf.net/projects/suspend) wanted...
