Re: Making powerd=YES default

[jean-Yves Migeon <jym%NetBSD.org@localhost>]

On Mon, 25 Jul 2011 11:40:44 -0400 (EDT), Mouse wrote:
> > > I also assume there are ports where powerd is of no benefit.
> > > Therefore enabling it there would just consume memory for nothing,
> > > wouldn't it?
> > Of course, anything started but not used waists memory, that's
> > something you can't know in advance :)
>
> On some ports you can; some ports don't support any hardware on which
> powerd is ever of any use.  (I think dreamcast qualifies, for 
> exmaple.)

In that case, we can use power management backends. Change is minimal 
to powerd(8) to tell it to exit when there is none (see the 
POWER_IOC_GET_TYPE ioctl).

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Jean-Yves Migeon
jym%NetBSD.org@localhost