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From: David Balazic <david.balazic@uni-mb.si>
To: pavel@suse.cz
Cc: "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown
Date: Thu, 12 Apr 2001 19:25:44 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <3AD5E518.3641B73A@uni-mb.si> (raw)

Pavel Machek (pavel@suse.cz) wrote :

> Hi! 
> 
> Init should get to know that user pressed power button (so it can do 
> shutdown and poweroff). Plus, it is nice to let user know that we can 
> read such event. [I hunted bug for few hours, thinking that kernel 
> does not get the event at all]. 
> 
> Here's patch to do that. Please apply, 
>                                                                 Pavel 

Isn't it better to just send the event to userspace , where
is it caught by apmd ( or whatever has replaced it ).
Then it can decide what to do about it, instead of dictating
a shutdown from kernel ( policy alert ;-) )


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             reply	other threads:[~2001-04-12 17:26 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 69+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2001-04-12 17:25 David Balazic [this message]
2001-04-16  7:03 ` Let init know user wants to shutdown Pavel Machek
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2001-04-18 22:52 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
2001-04-18  0:07 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
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
2001-04-17 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
2001-04-11 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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