Messages in this thread | | | From | "Grover, Andrew" <> | Subject | RE: Let init know user wants to shutdown | Date | Wed, 18 Apr 2001 11:28:52 -0700 |
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> From: Simon Richter > > We are going to need some software that handles button > events, as well as > > thermal events, battery events, polling the battery, AC > adapter status > > changes, sleeping the system, and more. > > Yes, that will be a separate daemon that will also get the > events. But I > think it's a good idea to have a simple interface that allows > the user to > run arbitrary commands when ACPI events occur, even without > acpid running > (think of singleuser mode, embedded systems, ...).
Fair enough. I don't think I would be out of line to say that our resources are focused on enabling full ACPI functionality for Linux, including a full-featured PM policy daemon. That said, I don't think there's anything precluding the use of another daemon (or whatever) from using the ACPI driver's interface.
> > Unix philosophy: "do one thing and do it well". > > Another Unix philosophy: "keep it simple, stupid". :-)
OK one more silly aphorism and I'll shut up. ;-) "Make it as simple as possible, but no simpler."
Regards -- Andy
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