Re: hibernate/suspend-to-disk: to turn power or not?

[Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>]

Nigel Cunningham wrote:
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> That should be doable. How is your UPS connected? Presumably, with some
> modifications to the appropriate driver, we could send the commands when
> we're ready to shutdown. It would probably be useful whether or not your
> hibernating (if not, sending the commands could always be made an option).

You mean adding stuff to some KERNEL driver?  Like to a serial driver if
the UPS is connected to a COM-port??

I'm afraid either I don't understand what you're talking about here, or,
if I got you right, that YOU don't understand what you're talking about...

Come on, teaching kernel about various idiotic UPSes out there is more
than insane... ;)

/mjt