Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

[David Balazic]

Pavel Machek ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) 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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David Balazic
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