Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 20 Apr 2001 19:02:27 +0200 | From | Pavel Machek <> | Subject | Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown |
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Hi!
> > > I'm wondering if that veto business is really needed. Why not reject > > > *all* APM rejectable events, and then let the userspace event handler > > > send the system to sleep or turn it off? Anybody au fait with the APM > > > spec? > > > > Because apmd is optional > > The veto stuff only comes into action, iff someone has registered as > willing to exercise this power. We would not break compatibility with > any std kernel by instead having a apmd send a "reject all" ioctl > instead, and so deal with events without having the pressure of having > to reject or accept them, and let us remove all the veto code from the > kernel driver. Or am I missing something?
No, this looks reasonable. Pavel -- I'm pavel@ucw.cz. "In my country we have almost anarchy and I don't care." Panos Katsaloulis describing me w.r.t. patents at discuss@linmodems.org - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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