Re: Let init know user wants to shutdown

John Fremlin
2001-04-18T19:11:23Z

Alan Cox <alan@lxorguk.ukuu.org.uk> writes:

> > 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?

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