RE: Applications & ACPI events

Patrick Mochel
2003-10-15T16:59:55Z

> This was what I was aiming for with ospmd/libpower -- a
> PM-implementation-neutral method for user apps to get notified of
> shutdowns before the kernel does its thing. However, have you read
> anything about D-bus? That initiative seems like it might be right for
> this kind of thing, too.
>
> http://www.freedesktop.org/Software/dbus

Funny you should mention that - the hotplug package now generates D-BUS
events for each hotplug event. So, by using the hotplug mechanism, the
desktop folks will also get the event notification, allowing them to
perform user-configured actions, too.

Pat