On Fri, 10 Apr 2009, Nate Lawson wrote: > Andriy Gapon wrote: > > on 09/04/2009 23:24 Stephen Clark said the following: > >> Is there a reason it doesn't send and event like Linux that can be acted > >> upon by user space other > >> than signaling init? I like to have a message written in > >> /var/log/messages that someone pressed > >> the powerbutton. > > > > I think that for all suspend states except S5 userland is notified via > > devd mechanism and potentially can veto the suspend. S5 (soft-off) is > > coded to start shutdown immediately. You can try to hack on > > acpi_ReqSleepState in sys/dev/acpica/acpi.c. > > > > I am not sure what is the reason for this special behavior of S5. But I > > like it, because it sometimes allows me to perform semi-clean shutdown > > when X goes crazy. But I also see when it could be useful to have S5 > > request go through userland. So this could be configurable. > > The reason for userland getting into the loop in the first place was to > run programs to shut down devices and reinit them after resume. This > isn't necessary in the shutdown case because init already sends a > signal, as you mention. > > There's already a mechanism for timing out if userland is not > responding, so a suspend will ultimately happen whether or not it > answers. However, that waits for a while (1 minute?) and devd used to be > optional, so I thought it best to keep the existing S5 behavior > (immediate shutdown). > > It may be ok to enable this for S5 but I don't think it's very useful.
Perhaps a silly question, but is it too late at this stage of the game to try logging S5 events to syslog before dying? I agree with Stephen, logging 'shutdown by powerbutton' surely beats what might otherwise resemble a spontaneous reboot? Or is something already logged here? cheers, Ian _______________________________________________ freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscr...@freebsd.org"