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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