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From: Pavel Machek <pavel@suse.cz>
To: John Fremlin <chief@bandits.org>, Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk>
Cc: sfr@linuxcare.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	apenwarr@worldvisions.ca
Subject: Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown
Date: Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:02:27 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20010420190227.B905@bug.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <E14pqYS-0004Y3-00@the-village.bc.nu> <m27l0i58i3.fsf@boreas.yi.org.>
In-Reply-To: <m27l0i58i3.fsf@boreas.yi.org.>; from John Fremlin on Wed, Apr 18, 2001 at 08:10:44PM +0100

Hi!

> > > I'm wondering if that veto business is really needed. Why not reject
> > > *all* APM rejectable events, and then let the userspace event handler
> > > send the system to sleep or turn it off? Anybody au fait with the APM
> > > spec?
> > 
> > Because apmd is optional
> 
> The veto stuff only comes into action, iff someone has registered as
> willing to exercise this power. We would not break compatibility with
> any std kernel by instead having a apmd send a "reject all" ioctl
> instead, and so deal with events without having the pressure of having
> to reject or accept them, and let us remove all the veto code from the
> kernel driver. Or am I missing something?

No, this looks reasonable.
								Pavel
-- 
I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care."
Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org

  parent reply	other threads:[~2001-04-20 17:12 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 77+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-18  0:07 Let init know user wants to shutdown Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18  0:51 ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18  1:56   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 11:55     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 19:10       ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 20:10         ` Alan Cox
2001-04-18 20:21           ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 21:05           ` Avery Pennarun
2001-04-18 21:34             ` John Fremlin
2001-04-20 17:02         ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2001-05-02 16:52           ` John Fremlin
2001-04-20 17:01     ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-20 23:41       ` John Fremlin
2001-04-21  7:54         ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-24  0:17         ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-24  1:08           ` John Fremlin
2001-04-24 10:06           ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-25 14:28             ` Jamie Lokier
2001-04-25 16:11             ` Richard Gooch
2001-04-18  1:54 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-19  3:54   ` Next gen PM interface John Fremlin
2001-04-19  4:07     ` Alan Cox
2001-04-19  5:08     ` Patrick Mochel
2001-04-19 18:57       ` John Fremlin
2001-04-19 19:09         ` Patrick Mochel
2001-04-19 19:30           ` John Fremlin
2001-04-19 19:07       ` John Fremlin
2001-04-20 17:08         ` Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-18 22:52 Let init know user wants to shutdown Grover, Andrew
2001-04-26 22:10 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-18 21:46 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18 22:09 ` David S. Miller
2001-04-18 22:30 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-19  2:16 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-19 12:04 ` David Woodhouse
2001-04-18 18:28 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-18 18:45 ` Jeff Garzik
2001-04-18 19:36 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-17 16:45 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-17 19:54 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-17 22:23 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-18 15:26 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-18 19:51   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-16 23:32 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-17  6:40 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-17  6:41 ` Simon Richter
2001-04-17 11:16 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-12 17:25 David Balazic
2001-04-16  7:03 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-11 17:06 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-11 18:29 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11  4:31 alad
2001-04-10 17:05 Grover, Andrew
2001-04-11  4:23 ` John R Lenton
2001-04-11 14:59   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11 12:20 ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-11 15:10   ` John Fremlin
2001-04-11 14:56 ` John Fremlin
2001-04-04 22:02 Pavel Machek
2001-04-10 23:20 ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:30   ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:38   ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-04-10 23:46     ` Kurt Roeckx
2001-04-10 23:53     ` Miquel van Smoorenburg
2001-04-10 23:41   ` Mike Castle
2001-04-13  0:29     ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-16 12:42       ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 15:49         ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-16 16:25           ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 21:27             ` Pavel Machek
2001-04-16 21:44               ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 22:38                 ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-17  6:16                   ` Simon Richter
2001-04-17  8:39                     ` Andreas Ferber
2001-04-17 14:09                       ` Simon Richter
2001-04-16 21:36         ` Ben Ford
     [not found] ` <9b04food@ncc1701.cistron.net>
     [not found]   ` <9b052eod@ncc1701.cistron.net>
2001-04-13  0:26     ` Pavel Machek

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