On Tue, 9 Aug 2005, Christoph Hellwig wrote: > Currently snsc_event for Altix systems sends SIGPWR to init (and abuses > tasklist_lock..) while the sbus drivers call execve for /sbin/shutdown > (which is also ugly, it should at least use call_usermodehelper) > With normal sysvinit both will end up the same, but I suspect the > shutdown variant, maybe with a sysctl to chose the exact path to call > would be cleaner. What do you guys think about adding a common function > to do this.
Sounds reasonable to me. I'll copy Aaron Young, who I think actually wrote the code to send the SIGPWR, in case he had a Good Reason for doing it this way. (Aaron, if I'm remembering wrong and you're not the guy who wrote this, let me know...) > Could you test such a patch for me? Sure. I'll need to get hold of some hardware/firmware that will reproduce a critical environmental situation... Might take a litte while... Thanks -- Greg Howard, MTS - Core Platform SW MS 10-1-061 SGI - Silicon Graphics Inc. 2750 Blue Water Road [EMAIL PROTECTED] Eagan, MN 55121 +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ "This assignment has two parts: a hard part, and an easy part. Do the easy part first; you might learn something that will help you on the hard part. Or, maybe you'll go outside for a walk before you start the hard part, and get hit by a truck!" - Dr. Jeffrey W. Smith +--------------------------------------------------------------------+ - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/