From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S268008AbUHKJSu (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:18:50 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S268010AbUHKJSt (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:18:49 -0400 Received: from main.gmane.org ([80.91.224.249]:29128 "EHLO main.gmane.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S268008AbUHKJSs (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Aug 2004 05:18:48 -0400 X-Injected-Via-Gmane: http://gmane.org/ To: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: =?iso-8859-1?q?M=E5ns_Rullg=E5rd?= Subject: Re: Allow userspace do something special on overtemp Date: Wed, 11 Aug 2004 11:18:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: <20040811085326.GA11765@elf.ucw.cz> <1092215024.2816.8.camel@laptop.fenrus.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8bit X-Complaints-To: usenet@sea.gmane.org X-Gmane-NNTP-Posting-Host: 213-187-164-3.dd.nextgentel.com User-Agent: Gnus/5.1006 (Gnus v5.10.6) XEmacs/21.4 (Security Through Obscurity, linux) Cancel-Lock: sha1:fzxmTgs1lXWArnJgV/m9ziQwJDw= Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Arjan van de Ven writes: > On Wed, 2004-08-11 at 10:53, Pavel Machek wrote: >> 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 ???? Good idea, then udev could create /dev/blowtorch so some other program can do ioctl(SCSI_STOP) (or just run cdrecord dev=6,6,6 -eject). Besides, it is called HOTplug for a reason. Seriously, though, isn't hotplug supposed to handle plugging and unplugging of hardware, rather than any random events detected by the kernel? -- Måns Rullgård mru@kth.se