From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268000AbUHKJGm (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:06:42 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268004AbUHKJGm (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:06:42 -0400 Received: from gprs214-4.eurotel.cz ([160.218.214.4]:9856 "EHLO amd.ucw.cz") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268000AbUHKJGi (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:06:38 -0400 Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:06:22 +0200 From: Pavel Machek To: Arjan van de Ven Cc: trenn@suse.de, seife@suse.de, kernel list , Len Brown Subject: Re: Allow userspace do something special on overtemp Message-ID: <20040811090622.GC674@elf.ucw.cz> References: <20040811085326.GA11765@elf.ucw.cz> <1092215024.2816.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1092215024.2816.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> X-Warning: Reading this can be dangerous to your mental health. User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.5.1+cvs20040105i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Hi! > > This patch cleans up thermal.c a bit, and adds possibility to react to > > critical overtemp: it tries to call /sbin/overtemp, and only if that > > fails calls /sbin/poweroff. > > why not call /sbin/hotplug ???? Because /sbin/hotplug may exist, but may not know how to handle overtemp. Which would be bad. Pavel -- People were complaining that M$ turns users into beta-testers... ...jr ghea gurz vagb qrirybcref, naq gurl frrz gb yvxr vg gung jnl!