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Date:      Fri, 11 Dec 1998 14:29:35 -0500
From:      "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca>
To:        current@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   [Fwd: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change]
Message-ID:  <3671729F.9CF2280D@videotron.ca>

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Well, it seems that in my rush to sent this to the list
I actually sent it only to Mike. So here it goes.

Stephane E. Potvin
Galea Network Security
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Date: Fri, 11 Dec 1998 08:34:03 -0500
From: "Stephane E. Potvin" <sepotvin@videotron.ca>
Organization: Galea Network Security
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To: Mike Smith <mike@smith.net.au>
Subject: Re: HEADS UP : laptop power-down change
References: <199812110803.AAA00533@dingo.cdrom.com>
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Mike Smith wrote:
> 
> > : Why the change?  The current behavior seems right to me.
> >
> > Actually, rather than argue this into the ground, would you object to
> > my implementing a
> >
> > options       APM_MAP_HALT_TO_POWER_OFF
> >
> > and checking it in to apm.c and LINT?
> 
> Yes.  There is a perfectly good set of run-time options which allow you
> to determine at any time whether you want to power-off or halt; having
> a kernel option override this would be stupid.
> 
It's not stupid at all in the current context. The majority of us that
have
laptop uses i386 compatible processors that don't have the system
monitor
you mention. Changing the behavior of the halt command is gratuitious in
our context and will only break current applications like kdm (part of
kde)
that expect the -h flag to shutdown the laptop, not halting it. At least
could you put an option in the kernel config file until such
applications
are changed to expect the new flag?

Just my 0.02, I don't really want a flame war over this so if you don't
add the knob it's ok, I'll just add it locally.

Stephane E. Potvin
Galea Network Security


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