Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 14:45:20 -0400 | From | Jeff Garzik <> | Subject | Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown |
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"Grover, Andrew" wrote: > > > From: Simon Richter > > > We are going to need some software that handles button > > events, as well as > > > thermal events, battery events, polling the battery, AC > > adapter status > > > changes, sleeping the system, and more. > > > > Yes, that will be a separate daemon that will also get the > > events. But I > > think it's a good idea to have a simple interface that allows > > the user to > > run arbitrary commands when ACPI events occur, even without > > acpid running > > (think of singleuser mode, embedded systems, ...). > > Fair enough. I don't think I would be out of line to say that our resources > are focused on enabling full ACPI functionality for Linux, including a > full-featured PM policy daemon. That said, I don't think there's anything > precluding the use of another daemon (or whatever) from using the ACPI > driver's interface.
There's a ton of stuff to focus on :)
For example, if you focused on suspend and resume, I could start implementing and testing that in the drivers :)
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