apm_engage_power_management(9)

apm_engage_power_management(9) 🎀 Kernel API Manual

✨ NAME ✨

apm_engage_power_management — enable PM on a device 💅

🌸 SYNOPSIS 🌸

int apm_engage_power_management (u_short device , int enable );

🦋 ARGUMENTS 🦋

• device — identity of device 🫶
• enable — on/off ✨

💖 DESCRIPTION 💖

Okay so bestie, this one is literally the power-management switch. It activates or deactivates power management on either a specific device or the entire system (APM_DEVICE_ALL). That's the whole vibe. No cap. 🔥

👑 SEE ALSO 👑

Kernel file ./arch/x86/kernel/apm_32.c 💖

• apm_error(9)
• __apm_bios_call(9)
• apm_bios_call(9)
• __apm_bios_call_simple(9)
• apm_bios_call_simple(9)
• apm_driver_version(9)
• apm_get_event(9)
• set_power_state(9)
• set_system_power_state(9)
• apm_do_idle(9)
• apm_do_busy(9)
• apm_cpu_idle(9)
• apm_power_off(9)
• apm_enable_power_management(9)
• apm_get_power_status(9)
• apm_console_blank(9)

source: ./arch/x86/kernel · date: October 2026 · apm_engage_power_management(9) 💜