Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

Pavel Machek
2001-04-20T17:12:52Z

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
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