As Arjan responded, some of the changes for this daemon is in progress and will 
be re-submitted.
Until then this is the package that interacts with OSPM driver (the platform 
power management  kernel driver, which is not yet in Meego public), to drive 
the platform into the low power states.

-----Original Message-----
From: Greg KH [mailto:gre...@suse.de] 
Sent: Tuesday, August 03, 2010 12:03 PM
To: Arjan van de Ven
Cc: Development for the MeeGo Project (discussion list); Thomas, Sujith
Subject: Re: [MeeGo-dev] ospm vs. upower

On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 09:24:47AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> On 8/3/2010 9:07 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >On Tue, Aug 03, 2010 at 08:54:24AM -0700, Arjan van de Ven wrote:
> >>On 8/3/2010 8:48 AM, Greg KH wrote:
> >>>>the userspace you're looking at is an historic artifact, not
> >>>>representing the current state of code.
> >>>It looks like userspace applications use this library, right?  Otherwise
> >>>why would it be around?
> >>>
> >>>confused,
> >>ospm is a daemon that fiddles some hardware bits.
> >>
> >>not a library for other applications to use.
> >>
> >>confused why you think otherwise ;)
> >It looked like a library when I looked at it (sorry, don't have access
> >to it at the moment.)
> >
> >And you forgot to respond to my other questions:
> >     - where is the kernel portion of this?
> not sure if the prototype for the older kernel got anywhere
> public... but why do you care?
> in that form it's dead.

Really?  That's not what I was told by someone else, which is why I was
asking :)

> >     - why is it in the meego build service if it's not something
> >       that is "in" meego?
> 
> hysterical raisins I suspect; it shouldn't be.

Good, then we can't expect to see it in any MeeGo instance (like a
hand-held or tablet release) then?

thanks,

greg k-h
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