From: Pavel Machek <pavel@ucw.cz>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: Greg Howard <ghoward@sgi.com>,
davem@davemloft.net, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control modules
Date: Thu, 11 Aug 2005 14:10:17 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050811121017.GA2810@elf.ucw.cz> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050809211003.GA29361@lst.de>
Hi!
> Currently snsc_event for Altix systems sends SIGPWR to init (and abuses
> tasklist_lock..) while the sbus drivers call execve for /sbin/shutdown
> (which is also ugly, it should at least use call_usermodehelper)
> With normal sysvinit both will end up the same, but I suspect the
> shutdown variant, maybe with a sysctl to chose the exact path to call
> would be cleaner. What do you guys think about adding a common function
> to do this. Could you test such a patch for me?
ACPI does some exec (in thermal), too. Yes, I think it is worth
standartizing. Easy to test, btw, just echo too low trippoints.
Pavel
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-11 12:10 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 8+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-09 21:10 Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control modules Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-09 21:25 ` Greg Howard
2005-08-09 21:36 ` Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control Aaron Young
2005-08-11 12:10 ` Pavel Machek [this message]
2005-08-11 17:37 ` [PATCH, RFC] Standardize shutdown of the system from enviroment control modules Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26 11:44 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-26 12:22 ` Greg Howard
2005-08-27 13:16 ` Denis Vlasenko
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