linux-kernel - Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0

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Message-ID: <Pine.LNX.4.61.0701212201220.29213@yvahk01.tjqt.qr>
Date:	Sun, 21 Jan 2007 22:04:24 +0100 (MET)
From:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...ux01.gwdg.de>
To:	Pavel Machek <pavel@....cz>
cc:	Alessandro Di Marco <dmr@....it>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [ANNOUNCE] System Inactivity Monitor v1.0


On Jan 19 2007 10:11, Pavel Machek wrote:
>
>> 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 ? la mac, etc...
>
>While functionality is extremely interesting.... does it really have
>to be in kernel?

I think so. While the X server grabs off any keyboard and mouse activity
on its own, there is no such thing for the [read "all"] console[s].
Mouse movement (e.g. GPM) is actually implemented in the kernel,
and screen blanking (the one controlled with "\e[9;x]") is too.


	-`J'
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