Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S964905AbXASHij (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:38:39 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S964907AbXASHij (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:38:39 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:34000 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S964905AbXASHii (ORCPT ); Fri, 19 Jan 2007 02:38:38 -0500 Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0 From: Arjan van de Ven To: Alessandro Di Marco Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org In-Reply-To: <877ivkrv5s.fsf@gmx.it> References: <877ivkrv5s.fsf@gmx.it> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Organization: Intel International BV Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2007 08:38:26 +0100 Message-Id: <1169192306.3055.379.camel@laptopd505.fenrus.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-2.fc6) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 838 Lines: 23 On Thu, 2007-01-18 at 20:29 +0100, Alessandro Di Marco wrote: > Hi all, > > this is a new 2.6.20 module implementing a user inactivity trigger. Basically > it acts as an event sniffer, issuing an ACPI event when no user activity is > detected for more than a certain amount of time. This event can be successively > grabbed and managed by an user-level daemon such as acpid, blanking the screen, > dimming the lcd-panel light à la mac, etc... Hi, why did you chose an ACPI event? I'd expect a uevent (which dbus captures etc) to be a more logical choice.. Greetings, Arjan van de Ven - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/