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SubjectRe: Let init know user wants to shutdown
"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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