>>B. Convince MD to take the idle calls out of the stock kernel. In the Operating Sysytems 101 course I took back in the dark ages over 20 years ago it was pointed out that having an "idle" process eased the design of an OS.
If you don't have an idle process then the you have to have an OS with at least two states. One state for when there are no processes running and another state for when there were processes running. The teacher was very quick to point out that having an idle process meant that the OS only needed one state - processes running. I am not a kernel expert, but I would suspect that kapm-idled fulfils the reuirement. Or perhaps there is yet another idle process buried in the kernel and kapm-idled has another purpose. Any kernel experts out there care to comment? In the end maybe all that is needed is a simple man page that explains what kapm-idled is and that it is indeed harmless! /Pen
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